3 papers
cond-mat.soft2024
Flocking by Turning Away
Suchismita Das, Matteo Ciarchi, Ziqi Zhou +3
Flocking, as paradigmatically exemplified by birds, is the coherent collective motion of active agents. As originally conceived, flocking emerges through alignment interactions bet…
cond-mat.soft2020
Active phase separation by turning toward regions of higher density
Jie Zhang, Ricard Alert, Jing Yan +2
Studies of active matter, from molecular assemblies to animal groups, have revealed two broad classes of behavior: a tendency to align yields orientational order and collective mot…
cond-mat.stat-mech2016
The Effective Temperature Concept Tested in an Active Colloid Mixture
Ming Han, Jing Yan, Steve Granick +1
Thermal energy agitates all matter and its competition with ordering tendencies is one of the most fundamental organizing principles in the physical world. Thus, it is natural to e…