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Local pressures are important in the calculation of interface tensions and in analyzing micromechanical behavior. The calculation of local pressures in computer simulations has been limited to systems with pairwise interactions between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hendrik Heinz , Wolfgang Paul , Kurt Binder

Active systems are driven out of equilibrium by exchanging energy and momentum with their environment. This endows them with anomalous mechanical properties that we review in this colloquium for the case of dry scalar active matter, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-20 Omer Granek , Yariv Kafri , Mehran Kardar , Sunghan Ro , Alexandre Solon , Julien Tailleur

Information processing abilities of active matter are studied in the reservoir computing (RC) paradigm to infer the future state of a chaotic signal. We uncover an exceptional regime of agent dynamics that has been overlooked previously. It…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-26 Mario U. Gaimann , Miriam Klopotek

Wet active matter in the presence of an imposed temperature gradient, or chemical potential gradient, is considered. It is shown that there is a new type of convective instability that is caused by a (negative) activity parameter.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-15 T. R. Kirkpatrick , J. K. Bhattacherjee

We study the dynamical response of a circularly-driven rigid body, focusing on the description of intrinsic rotational behavior (reverse rotations). The model system we address is integrable but nontrivial, allowing for qualitative and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fernando Parisio

Active matter is a term encompassing particle-based assemblies with some form of self-propulsion, including certain biological systems as well as synthetic systems such as artificial colloidal swimmers, all of which can exhibit a remarkable…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , A. Libal , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Active particle systems of interacting self-propelled particles offer a versatile framework for modeling complex systems. When employed to describe aspects of animal behavior, the complexity of animal movement and decision-making often…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-01-09 Amir Haluts , Dan Gorbonos , Nir S. Gov

In equilibrium, the collective behaviour of particles interacting via steep, short-ranged potentials is well captured by the virial expansion of the free energy at low density. Here, we extend this approach beyond equilibrium to the case of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-21 Yuting Irene Li , Rosalba Garcia-Millan , Michael E. Cates , Étienne Fodor

An expression for the internal energy of a fluid element in a weakly coupled, magnetized, anisotropic plasma is derived from first principles. The result is a function of entropy, particle density and magnetic field, and as such plays the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 R. D. Hazeltine , S. M. Mahajan , P. J. Morrison

The most usual formulation of the Laws of Thermodynamics turns out to be suitable for local or simple materials, while for non-local systems there are two different ways: either modify this usual formulation by introducing suitable extra…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Mauro Fabrizio , Barbara Lazzari , Roberta Nibbi

The current work employed absolutely smooth surface and lattice structure surface to distinguish the relationship between intrinsic wettability of different combinations of liquid and solid particles and the microscopic interparticle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-10 Haohao Gu , Hao Wang

The presented paper is an attempt to investigate the dynamical states of an hydrodynamical isothermal turbulent self-gravitating system using some powerful tools of the classical thermodynamics. Our main assumption, inspired by the work of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-21 Sava Donkov , Ivan Zh. Stefanov , Todor V. Veltchev

Many theories are formulated as constrained systems. We provide a mechanism that explains the origin of physical states of a constrained system by a process of selection of noiseless subsystems when the system is coupled to an external…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomasz Konopka , Fotini Markopoulou

Active constituents burn fuel to sustain individual motion, giving rise to collective effects that are not seen in systems at thermal equilibrium, such as phase separation with purely repulsive interactions. There is a great potential in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-16 Luke K. Davis , Karel Proesmans , Étienne Fodor

We discuss different definitions of pressure for a system of active spherical particles driven by a non-thermal coloured noise. We show that mechanical, kinetic and free-energy based approaches lead to the same result up to first order in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-18 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Claudio Maggi , Simone Melchionna

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

Liu procedure is applied to a first order weakly nonlocal special relativistic fluid. It is shown, that a reasonable relativistic theory is and extended one, where the basic state space contains the momentum density. This property follows…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-08-01 P. Ván

Computer simulations of inhomogeneous soft matter systems often require accurate methods for computing the local pressure. We present a simple derivation, based on the virial relation, of two equivalent expressions for the local (atomistic)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 Thomas Lion , Rosalind J. Allen

Systems composed of strongly interacting self-propelled particles can form a spontaneously flowing polar active fluid. The study of the connection between the microscopic dynamics of a single such particle and the macroscopic dynamics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-02 Benjamin Loewe , Anton Souslov , Paul M. Goldbart

This paper is devoted to the study of induced topological pressure, including both classical and nonlinear cases. For the classical induced topological pressure, we investigate equilibrium states, subdifferential and freezing states, while…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Wenhui Ma , Yun Zhao , Hanjing Zhu