Time irreversibility in active matter, from micro to macro

J O'Byrne, Y Kafri, J Tailleur, F van Wijland - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Active matter encompasses systems whose individual constituents dissipate energy to exert
propelling forces on their environment. These systems exhibit dynamical phenomena with …

Colloquium: Inclusions, boundaries, and disorder in scalar active matter

O Granek, Y Kafri, M Kardar, S Ro, J Tailleur… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Active systems are driven out of equilibrium by exchanging energy and momentum with their
environment. This endows them with anomalous mechanical properties that are reviewed in …

Anomalous transport of tracers in active baths

O Granek, Y Kafri, J Tailleur - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We derive the long-time dynamics of a tracer immersed in a one-dimensional active bath. In
contrast to previous studies, we find that the damping and noise correlations possess long …

Non-reciprocity across scales in active mixtures

A Dinelli, J O'Byrne, A Curatolo, Y Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In active matter, particles typically experience mediated interactions, which are not
constrained by Newton's third law and are therefore generically non-reciprocal. Non …

Fluctuating motion in an active environment

C Maes - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We derive the fluctuation dynamics of a probe in weak coupling with a living medium,
modeled as particles undergoing an active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck dynamics. Nondissipative …

On the Einstein relation between mobility and diffusion coefficient in an active bath

A Solon, JM Horowitz - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
An active bath, made of self-propelling units, is a nonequilibrium medium in which the
Einstein relation D= μk BT between the mobility μ and the diffusivity D of a tracer particle …

Disordered boundaries destroy bulk phase separation in scalar active matter

Y Ben Dor, S Ro, Y Kafri, M Kardar, J Tailleur - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
We show that disordered boundaries destroy bulk phase separation in scalar active systems
in dimension d< dc= 3. This is in strong contrast with the equilibrium case where boundaries …

Disorder-induced long-ranged correlations in scalar active matter

S Ro, Y Kafri, M Kardar, J Tailleur - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We study the impact of quenched random potentials and torques on scalar active matter.
Microscopic simulations reveal that motility-induced phase separation is replaced in two …

Active nonreciprocal attraction between motile particles in an elastic medium

RK Gupta, R Kant, H Soni, AK Sood, S Ramaswamy - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
We show from experiments and simulations on vibration-activated granular matter that self-
propelled polar rods in an elastic medium on a substrate turn and move towards each other …

Microscopic origin of tunable assembly forces in chiral active environments

CH Batton, GM Rotskoff - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Across a variety of spatial scales, from nanoscale biological systems to micron-scale
colloidal systems, equilibrium self-assembly is entirely dictated by—and therefore limited by …