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 …

Statistical mechanics of active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles

D Martin, J O'Byrne, ME Cates, É Fodor, C Nardini… - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We study the statistical properties of active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles (AOUPs). In this
simplest of models, the Gaussian white noise of overdamped Brownian colloids is replaced …

Spontaneous velocity alignment in motility-induced phase separation

L Caprini, U Marini Bettolo Marconi, A Puglisi - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We study a system of purely repulsive spherical self-propelled particles in the minimal setup
inducing motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). We show that, even if explicit alignment …

Irreversibility in active matter systems: Fluctuation theorem and mutual information

L Dabelow, S Bo, R Eichhorn - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We consider a Brownian particle which, in addition to being in contact with a thermal bath, is
driven by fluctuating forces which stem from active processes in the system, such as self …

[HTML][HTML] Response theory: a trajectory-based approach

C Maes - Frontiers in Physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
We collect recent results on deriving useful response relations also for non-equilibrium
systems. The approach is based on dynamical ensembles, determined by an action on …

Inertial self-propelled particles

L Caprini, U Marini Bettolo Marconi - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We study how inertia affects the behavior of self-propelled particles moving through a
viscous solvent by employing the underdamped version of the active Ornstein–Uhlenbeck …

Active Ornstein–Uhlenbeck model for self-propelled particles with inertia

GHP Nguyen, R Wittmann… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Self-propelled particles, which convert energy into mechanical motion, exhibit inertia if they
have a macroscopic size or move inside a gaseous medium, in contrast to micron-sized …

The entropy production of Ornstein–Uhlenbeck active particles: a path integral method for correlations

L Caprini, UMB Marconi, A Puglisi… - Journal of Statistical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
By employing a path integral formulation, we obtain the entropy production rate for a system
of active Ornstein–Uhlenbeck particles (AOUP) both in the presence and in the absence of …

Active particles under confinement and effective force generation among surfaces

L Caprini, UMB Marconi - Soft matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We consider the effect of geometric confinement on the steady-state properties of a one-
dimensional active suspension subject to thermal noise. The random active force is modeled …

Spatial velocity correlations in inertial systems of active Brownian particles

L Caprini, UMB Marconi - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, it has been discovered that systems of active Brownian particles (APB) at high
density organise their velocities into coherent domains showing large spatial structures in …