activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Irreversibility in scalar active turbulence: The role of topological defects

Byjesh N. Radhakrishnan, Francesco Serafin, Thomas L. Schmidt +1

In many active systems, swimmers collectively stir the surrounding fluid to stabilize some self-sustained vortices. The resulting nonequilibrium state is often referred to as activ…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Entropy production rate in thermodynamically consistent flocks

Tal Agranov, Robert L. Jack, Michael E. Cates +1

We study the entropy production rate (EPR) of aligning self-propelled particles which undergo a flocking transition towards a polarized collective motion. In our thermodynamically…

cond-mat.soft2025

Species interconversion of deformable particles yields transient phase separation

Yiwei Zhang, Alessandro Manacorda, Étienne Fodor

We consider a dense assembly of repulsive particles whose fluctuating sizes are subject to an energetic landscape that defines three species: two distinct states of particles with…

cond-mat.soft2025

Biased ensembles of pulsating active matter

William D. Piñeros, Étienne Fodor

We discover unexpected connections between packing configurations and rare fluctuations in dense systems of active particles subject to pulsation of size. Using large deviation the…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Diffusive oscillators capture the pulsating states of deformable particles

Alessandro Manacorda, Étienne Fodor

We study a model of diffusive oscillators whose internal states are subject to a periodic drive. These models are inspired by the dynamics of deformable particles with pulsating si…

q-bio.MN2024

Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Non-Ideal Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Implications for Active Self-Organization

Francesco Avanzini, Timur Aslyamov, Étienne Fodor +1

We develop a framework describing the dynamics and thermodynamics of open non-ideal reaction-diffusion systems, which embodies Flory-Huggins theories of mixtures and chemical react…