Lectures on non-equilibrium active systems
Abstract
These notes are based on lectures given during the Summer School `Active matter and non-equilibrium statistical physics', held in Les Houches in September 2018. In these notes, we have merged our lectures into a single chapter broadly dedicated to `Non-equilibrium active systems'. We start with a discussion of generic features of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, followed by a description of selected examples of the possible consequences of not being at thermal equilibrium. We then introduce the topic of dense glassy materials with a short review of glassy dynamics, rheology and jamming transitions for systems that are not active. We then discuss dense active materials, from simple mean-field theories to numerical models and experimental realizations. Finally, we discuss two examples of materials driven out of equilibrium by an oscillatory driving force.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1906.04039,
title = {Lectures on non-equilibrium active systems},
author = {Ludovic Berthier and Jorge Kurchan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.04039},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
55 pages, 15 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1902.08580