collaborators

5 papers

cond-mat.soft2025

Order and shape dependence of mechanical relaxation in proliferating active matter

Jonas Isensee, Lukas Hupe, Philip Bittihn

Collective dynamics in proliferating anisotropic particle systems arise from an interplay between growth, division, and mechanical interactions, often mediated by particle shape. I…

cond-mat.soft2025

Prediction and control of geometry-induced nematic order in growing multicellular systems

Lukas Hupe, Jonas Isensee, Ramin Golestanian +1

In densely-packed two-dimensional systems of growing cells, such as rod-shaped bacteria, a number of experimental and numerical studies report distinct patterns of nematic orientat…

cond-mat.soft2025

Phase separation in a mixture of proliferating and motile active matter

Lukas Hupe, Joanna M. Materska, David Zwicker +3

Proliferation and motility are ubiquitous drivers of activity in biological systems. Here, we study a dense binary mixture of motile and proliferating particles with exclusively re…

cond-mat.soft2025

Motility-induced mixing transition in exponentially growing multicellular spheroids

Torben Sunkel, Lukas Hupe, Philip Bittihn

Growth drives cellular dynamics in dense aggregates including bacterial colonies, developing tissues, and tumors. We investigate the underlying physical principles emerging from th…

cond-mat.soft2024

Isovolumetric dividing active matter

Samantha R. Lish, Lukas Hupe, Ramin Golestanian +1

We introduce and theoretically investigate a minimal particle-based model for a new class of active matter where particles exhibit directional, volume-conserving division in confin…