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5 papers

cond-mat.soft2025

Multimodal motion and behavior switching of multistable ciliary walkers

Sumit Mohanty, Paul Baconnier, Harmannus A. H. Schomaker +3

The collective motion of arrays of cilia - tiny, hairlike protrusions - drives the locomotion of numerous microorganisms, enabling multimodal motion and autonomous switching betwee…

cond-mat.soft2025

Dynamic self-loops in networks of passive and active binary elements

Paul Baconnier, Margot H. Teunisse, Martin van Hecke

Models of coupled binary elements capture memory effects in complex dissipative materials, such as transient responses or sequential computing, when their interactions are chosen a…

cond-mat.soft2025

Collective actuation in active solids in the presence of a polarizing field: a systematic analysis of the dynamical regimes

Paul Baconnier, Vincent Démery, Olivier Dauchot

Collective actuation in active solids, the spontaneous condensation of the dynamics on a few elastic modes, takes place whenever the deformations of the structure reorient the forc…

cond-mat.soft2025

Reentrant transition to collective actuation in active solids with a polarizing field

Paul Baconnier, Mathéo Aksil, Vincent Démery +1

Collective actuation in active solids - the spontaneous coherent excitation of a few vibrational modes - emerges from a feedback between structural deformations and the orientation…

cond-mat.soft2025

Aging of amorphous materials under cyclic strain

Dor Shohat, Paul Baconnier, Itamar Procaccia +2

Amorphous materials driven away from equilibrium display a diverse repertoire of complex, history-dependent behaviors. One striking feature is a failure to return to equilibrium af…