Computational models for active matter

MR Shaebani, A Wysocki, RG Winkler… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Active matter, which ranges from molecular motors to groups of animals, exists at different
length scales and timescales, and various computational models have been proposed to …

Physics of microswimmers—single particle motion and collective behavior: a review

J Elgeti, RG Winkler, G Gompper - Reports on progress in …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Locomotion and transport of microorganisms in fluids is an essential aspect of life. Search
for food, orientation toward light, spreading of off-spring, and the formation of colonies are …

Reconfigurable magnetic microrobot swarm: Multimode transformation, locomotion, and manipulation

H Xie, M Sun, X Fan, Z Lin, W Chen, L Wang, L Dong… - Science robotics, 2019 - science.org
Swimming microrobots that are energized by external magnetic fields exhibit a variety of
intriguing collective behaviors, ranging from dynamic self-organization to coherent motion; …

The 2020 motile active matter roadmap

G Gompper, RG Winkler, T Speck… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental in living and engineering systems. This
has stimulated the new field of'active matter'in recent years, which focuses on the physical …

Emergent behavior in active colloids

A Zöttl, H Stark - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Active colloids are microscopic particles, which self-propel through viscous fluids by
converting energy extracted from their environment into directed motion. We first explain …

Motility-induced phase separation

ME Cates, J Tailleur - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2015 - annualreviews.org
Self-propelled particles include both self-phoretic synthetic colloids and various
microorganisms. By continually consuming energy, they bypass the laws of equilibrium …

Self-propelled rods: Insights and perspectives for active matter

M Bär, R Großmann, S Heidenreich… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
A wide range of experimental systems including gliding, swarming and swimming bacteria,
in vitro motility assays, and shaken granular media are commonly described as self …

Hydrodynamics of soft active matter

MC Marchetti, JF Joanny, S Ramaswamy… - Reviews of modern …, 2013 - APS
This review summarizes theoretical progress in the field of active matter, placing it in the
context of recent experiments. This approach offers a unified framework for the mechanical …

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 …

Meso-scale turbulence in living fluids

HH Wensink, J Dunkel, S Heidenreich… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Turbulence is ubiquitous, from oceanic currents to small-scale biological and quantum
systems. Self-sustained turbulent motion in microbial suspensions presents an intriguing …