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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 11: Active Matter 2 (joint session DY/BP/CPP)

BP 11.2: Talk

Tuesday, September 6, 2022, 10:15–10:30, H18

Pulsating Active Matter — •Yiwei Zhang and Etienne Fodor — 0 Av. de la Faiencerie, 1511 Luxembourg

Active matter features the injection of energy at individual level keeping the system out of equilibrium, which leads to novel phenomenologies without any equilibrium equivalents. So far, most active matter models assign a velocity to each particle, whilst we herein consider a system of pulsating soft particles where the activity sustains particles' periodic deformation instead of spatial displacement. At sufficiently high density, we reveal the existence of wave propagation independent of any particle migration, and derive the corresponding phase diagram. We study the character of phase transitions, and investigate the underlying physical mechanisms, using both particle-based simulations and hydrodynamic analysis.