<i>Colloquium</i>: Inclusions, boundaries, and disorder in scalar active matter
Active systems defy the laws of equilibrium statistical mechanics, often enjoying long-range order in situations where dead matter cannot, as required by rigorous results. These strong, long range correlations result in a preternatural sensitivity to sample boundaries and boundary conditions. This Colloquium demonstrates this phenomena by focussing on a simple model of dry scalar active matter that demonstrates the salient effects without the additional complexity of hydrodynamics.
Authors
- Omer Granek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3166-3427)
- Julien Tailleur (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6847-3304)
- Sunghan Ro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8119-6567)
- Yariv Kafri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9892-1526)
- Alexandre Solon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0222-1347)
- Mehran Kardar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-5912)
Institutions
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (IL)
- Sorbonne Université (FR)
- Laboratoire Médiations (FR)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Reviews of Modern Physics
- Published
- 2024-09-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.96.031003
- Citations
- 20
- Primary Topic
- Micro and Nano Robotics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.22
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche
- United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
- Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Israel Science Foundation