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We construct a class of quantum stochastic models of reservoir driven many-particle systems that are the natural counterparts of certain extensively studied classical ones, which have been shown to exhibit good hydrodynamical behaviour. Our…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Geoffrey Sewell

Recent experiments on active materials, such as dense bacterial suspensions and microtubule-kinesin motor mixtures, show a promising potential for achieving self-sustained flows. However, to develop active microfluidics it is necessary to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-23 Santhan Chandragiri , Amin Doostmohammadi , Julia M Yeomans , Sumesh P Thampi

We derive the Hydrodynamics for a system of N active, spherical, underdamped particles, interacting through conservative forces. At the microscopic level, we represent the evolution of the particles in terms of the Kramers equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-15 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Andrea Puglisi , Lorenzo Caprini

Active matter concerns many-body systems comprised of living or self-driven agents that collectively exhibit macroscopic phenomena distinct from conventional passive matter. Using Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory, we develop a novel…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-07 Jay Armas , Akash Jain , Ruben Lier

We introduce a class of lattice gas models of active matter systems whose hydrodynamic description can be derived exactly. We illustrate our approach by considering two systems exhibiting two of the most studied collective behaviours in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-04 Mourtaza Kourbane-Houssene , Clément Erignoux , Thierry Bodineau , Julien Tailleur

Active nematics are dense systems of rodlike particles that consume energy to drive motion at the level of the individual particles. They exist in natural systems like biological tissues and artificial materials such as suspensions of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-14 Yunrui Li , Zahra Zarei , Phu N. Tran , Yifei Wang , Aparna Baskaran , Seth Fraden , Michael F. Hagan , Pengyu Hong

We develop a general kinetic theory framework to describe the hydrodynamics of strongly interacting, nonequilibrium quantum systems in which integrability is weakly broken, leaving a few residual conserved quantities. This framework is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-03 Javier Lopez-Piqueres , Brayden Ware , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

Critical analyses of well-known methods of derivation of kinetic and hydrodynamic equations is presented. Another method of derivation of kinetic and hydrodynamic equations from classic mechanics is described. It is shown that equations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 L. S. Kuz'menkov , P. A. Andreev

How physical systems approach hydrodynamic behavior is governed by the decay of nonhydrodynamic modes. Here, we start from a relativistic kinetic theory that encodes relaxation mechanisms governed by different timescales thus sharing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-13 Aleksi Kurkela , Urs Achim Wiedemann

Collective dynamics can be observed among many animal species, and have given rise in the last decades to an active and interdisciplinary field of study. Such behaviors are often modeled by active matter, in which each individual is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Clément Erignoux

Engineering synthetic materials that mimic the remarkable complexity of living organisms is a fundamental challenge in science and technology. We study the spatiotemporal patterns that emerge when an active nematicfilm of microtubules and…

Recent experiments and numerical studies have drawn attention to the dynamics of active nematics. Two-dimensional active nematics flow spontaneously and exhibit spatiotemporal chaotic flows with proliferation of topological defects in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-08 Farzan Vafa , Mark J. Bowick , M. Cristina Marchetti , Boris I. Shraiman

The literature is rich with studies, analyses, and examples on parameter estimation for describing the evolution of chaotic dynamical systems based on measurements, even when only partial information is available through observations.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-07 Michele Baia , Tommaso Matteuzzi , Franco Bagnoli

Living systems display complex behaviors driven by physical forces as well as decision-making. Hydrodynamic theories hold promise for simplified universal descriptions of socially-generated collective behaviors. However, the construction of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Daniel S. Seara , Jonathan Colen , Michel Fruchart , Yael Avni , David Martin , Vincenzo Vitelli

The onset of hydrodynamic instabilities is of great importance in both industry and daily life, due to the dramatic mechanical and thermodynamic changes for different types of flow motions. In this paper, modern machine learning techniques,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-03 Wuyue Yang , Liangrong Peng , Yi Zhu , Liu Hong

Inspired by dense contractile tissues, where cells are subject to periodic deformation, we formulate and study a generic hydrodynamic theory of pulsating active liquids. Combining mechanical and phenomenological arguments, we postulate that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-25 Tirthankar Banerjee , Thibault Desaleux , Jonas Ranft , Étienne Fodor

The accumulation of self-propelled particles on repulsive barriers is a widely observed feature in active matter. Despite being implicated in a broad range of biological processes, from biofilm formation to cytoskeletal movement, wetting of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-12 Noah Grodzinski , Michael E. Cates , Robert L. Jack

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--pushers, pullers, and neutral swimmers--each exhibiting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-25 Lisa Rohde , Gordei Anchutkin , Viktor Holubec , Frank Cichos

Being intrinsically nonequilibrium, active materials can potentially perform functions that would be thermodynamically forbidden in passive materials. However, active systems have diverse local attractors that correspond to distinct…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-16 Saptorshi Ghosh , Aparna Baskaran , Michael F. Hagan

Self-propelled particles with hydrodynamic interactions (microswimmers) have previously been shown to produce long-range ordering phenomena. Many theoretical explanations for these collective phenomena are connected to instabilities in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-03 Yuzhou Qian , Peter R. Kramer , Patrick T. Underhill