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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 65: Talk T. Speck

DY 65.1: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 15, 2018, 15:00–15:30, BH-N 243

Towards a thermodynamics of active particles — •Thomas Speck — Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

I will give a brief overview on the theoretical modeling of autonomous self-propelled particles with directed motion, which colloquially go by the name ``active particles''. Being driven away from thermal equilibrium, questions like the physical meaning of entropy production arising from breaking time-reversal symmetry and consistency with thermodynamic principles have received increasing attention. I will discuss the situation for active Brownian particles, a minimal model system of active particles combining directed motion with volume exclusion, in the context of stochastic thermodynamics.