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Self-organization, Memory and Learning: From Driven Disordered Systems to Living Matter
Muhittin Mungan, Eric Clement, Damien Vandembroucq +1
Disordered systems subject to a fluctuating environment can self-organize into a complex history-dependent response, retaining a memory of the driving. In sheared amorphous solids,…
Bacteria collective motion is scale-free
Benjamin Perez-Estay, Vincent Martinez, Carine Douarche +7
Suspensions of swimming bacteria interact hydrodynamically over long ranges, organizing themselves into collective states that drive large-scale chaotic flows, often referred to as…
Confinement controls bacterial spreading at all scales
Renaud Baillou, Marta Pedrosa Garcia-Moreno, Quentin Guigue +5
Navigation of microorganisms is controlled by internal processes ultimately sensitive to mechanical or chemical signaling encountered along the path. In many natural environments,…
Active bacterial baths in droplets
Cristian Villalobos-Concha, Zhengyang Liu, Gabriel Ramos +6
Suspensions of self-propelled objects represent a novel paradigm in colloidal science. In such active baths traditional concepts, such as Brownian motion, fluctuation-dissipation r…