Colloquium: Inclusions, boundaries, and disorder in scalar active matter

O Granek, Y Kafri, M Kardar, S Ro, J Tailleur… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Active systems are driven out of equilibrium by exchanging energy and momentum with their
environment. This endows them with anomalous mechanical properties that are reviewed in …

From Fluctuations and Disorder to Scaling and Control: The Emergence of Resistance in Microbial Communities

J Moran, KB Wood - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Antibiotics are a cornerstone of modern medicine, and antibiotic resistance is a growing
threat to public health. The evolution of resistance is a multiscale process shaped by many …

A three-node Turing gene circuit forms periodic spatial patterns in bacteria

J Tica, MO Huidobro, T Zhu, GKA Wachter, RH Pazuki… - Cell Systems, 2024 - cell.com
Turing patterns are self-organizing systems that can form spots, stripes, or labyrinths.
Proposed examples in tissue organization include zebrafish pigmentation, digit spacing, and …

Nonreciprocal Pattern Formation of Conserved Fields

F Brauns, MC Marchetti - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
In recent years, nonreciprocally coupled systems have received growing attention. Previous
work has shown that the interplay of nonreciprocal coupling and Goldstone modes can drive …

Diffusiophoresis: a novel transport mechanism-fundamentals, applications, and future opportunities

A Ganguly, BM Alessio, A Gupta - Frontiers in Sensors, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Diffusiophoresis involves the movement of colloidal-scale entities in response to
concentration gradients of a solute. It is broadly categorized into two types: passive and …

AMEP: The active matter evaluation package for Python

L Hecht, KR Dormann, KL Spanheimer… - Computer Physics …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract The Active Matter Evaluation Package (AMEP) is a Python library for analyzing
simulation data of particle-based and continuum simulations. It provides a powerful and …

Self‐Organized Patterns in Non‐Reciprocal Active Droplet Systems

Y Liu, R Kailasham, PG Moerman… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐equilibrium patterns are widespread in nature and often arise from the self‐
organization of constituents through nonreciprocal chemotactic interactions. In this study, we …

[HTML][HTML] Arbitrage equilibria in active matter systems

V Venkatasubramanian, A Sivaram… - Computers & Chemical …, 2025 - Elsevier
The motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) phenomenon in active matter has been of
great interest for the past decade or so. A central conceptual puzzle is that this behavior …

Densitaxis: Active particle motion in density gradients

VA Shaik, GJ Elfring - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 - pnas.org
Organisms often swim through density-stratified fluids. Here, we investigate the dynamics of
active particles swimming in fluid density gradients and report theoretical evidence of taxis …

Interplay between environmental yielding and dynamic forcing modulates bacterial growth

AM Hancock, SS Datta - Biophysical Journal, 2024 - cell.com
Many bacterial habitats—ranging from gels and tissues in the body to cell-secreted
exopolysaccharides in biofilms—are rheologically complex, undergo dynamic external …