activity
20102026
most citedCircular motion of asymmetric self-propelling particles

471 citations · 4k across the 72 of their papers we have counts for

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73 papers

quant-ph2026

Quantum-enabled active matter at the atomic scale

Sabrina Burgardt, Julian Feß, Alexander Guthmann +8

Active matter comprises particles that extract energy from their local environment and convert it into motion. Although active particles have been miniaturized down to the nanoscal…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 7 cited

Anomalous grain dynamics and grain locomotion of odd crystals

Zhi-Feng Huang, Michael te Vrugt, Raphael Wittkowski +1

Crystalline or polycrystalline systems governed by odd elastic responses are known to exhibit complex dynamical behaviors involving self-propelled dynamics of topological defects w…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 61 cited

A review of active matter reviews

Michael te Vrugt, Raphael Wittkowski

In the past years, the amount of research on active matter has grown extremely rapidly, a fact that is reflected in particular by the existence of more than 600 review articles on…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 3 cited

Active pattern formation emergent from single-species nonreciprocity

Zhi-Feng Huang, Michael te Vrugt, Jonas Mayer Martins +2

Nonreciprocal interactions violating Newton's third law are common in a plethora of nonequilibrium situations ranging from predator-prey systems to the swarming of birds and effect…

cond-mat.soft2024

Microscopic derivation of the thin film equation using the Mori-Zwanzig formalism

Michael te Vrugt, Leon Topp, Raphael Wittkowski +1

The hydrodynamics of thin films is typically described using phenomenological models whose connection to the microscopic particle dynamics is a subject of ongoing research. Existin…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 1 cited

Ultrasound-propelled nano- and microspinners

Johannes Voß, Raphael Wittkowski

We study nonhelical nano- and microparticles that, through a particular shape, rotate when they are exposed to ultrasound. Employing acoustofluidic computer simulations, we investi…