activity
20092026
most citedCycling tames power fluctuations near optimum efficiency

159 citations · 1.5k across the 53 of their papers we have counts for

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54 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Reaction Delays Boost, Rectify, and Reverse Motility in Activity Landscapes

Constantin Rein, Klaus Kroy, Viktor Holubec

Local detailed balance restricts transport by self-propulsion in static activity landscapes. We show that a delayed speed adaptation (``delayed motility/kinesis'') generically brea…

cond-mat.soft2026

Cohesion from Action-Dependent Perception in Decision-Based Active Matter

Julian Giraldo-Barreto, Viktor Holubec

Many biological and artificial agents reorient by locally optimizing a utility over a finite set of candidate actions. We show that decision rules based on pairwise additive scores…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Strong Violation of the Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation in a Minimal Autonomous Heat Engine

Enrique P. Cital, Viktor Holubec

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) impose a universal trade-off between current precision and entropy production in autonomous steady states, constraining in particular the…

cond-mat.soft2026

Feedback control and delayed interactions in active matter

Viktor Holubec, Frank Cichos

Feedback control plays a central role in active matter, yet it is inevitably accompanied by noise and finite perception--action delays. This Perspective reviews recent advances on…

cond-mat.soft2025

Programmable Hydrodynamics of Active Particles

Lisa Rohde, Gordei Anchutkin, Viktor Holubec +1

Self-propelled microparticles create flow fields that determine how they interact with surfaces, external flows, and each other. These flow fields fall into distinct classes--pushe…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 1 cited

Inertia Tames Fluctuations in Autonomous Stationary Heat Engines

Enrique P. Cital, Viktor Holubec

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) provide fundamental constraints on the interplay between power fluctuations, entropy production, and efficiency in overdamped stationary…