3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
The Hidden Wheel-Within
Falko Ziebert, Igor M. KuliÄ
There is this old, eternal question: Why don't animals have wheels? In this perspective we show that they actually do. And they do so in a physically extraordinary way -- by combin…
cond-mat.soft2025
Stochastic Path Integral for the Active Brownian Particle in a Harmonic Potential
Carsten Littek, Mike Brandt, Falko Ziebert
In this work we develop and apply a path integral formulation for the microscopic degrees of freedom obeying stochastic differential equations to an active Brownian particle (ABP)…
cond-mat.soft2024
Reshaping and Enzymatic Activity may allow Viruses to move through the Mucus
Falko Ziebert, Kenan G. Dokonon, Igor M. KuliÄ
Filamentous viruses like influenza and torovirus often display systematic bends and arcs of mysterious physical origin. We propose that such viruses undergo an instability from a c…