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Author Ecole d'été de physique théorique (Les Houches, Haute-Savoie, France) (112th : 2018), creator

Title Active matter and nonequilibrium statistical physics : lecture notes of the Les Houches Summer School / edited by Gerhard Gompper, M. Cristina Marchetti, Julien Tailleur, Julia M. Yeomans, Christophe Salomon
Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

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Series Lecture Notes of the les Houches Summer School ; volume 112
Ecole d'été de physique théorique (Les Houches, Haute-Savoie, France). Lecture notes of the Les Houches Summer School ; v. 112.
Contents Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyrihgt -- Dedication -- Previous sessions -- Publishers -- List of contributors -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 Collective Behaviors in Active-matter Systems -- 1 Dry, Aligning, Dilute, Active Matter: A Synthetic and Self-contained Overview -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Particle-level Phenomenology of the Three Basic DADAM Classes -- 1.3 Hydrodynamic Theories for the Three Basic DADAM Classes -- 1.4 Discussion and Perspectives -- 2 Why Walking Is Easier Than Pointing: Hydrodynamics of Dry Active Matter -- 2.1 Introduction
2.2 Dynamical ̀̀Derivation'' of the Mermin-Wagner Theorem -- 2.3 Formulating the Hydrodynamic Model -- 2.4 Solving the Hydrodynamic Model -- 2.5 20-20 Hindsight Handwaving Argument -- 3 Collective Motion in Active Materials: Model Experiments -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Colloidal Rollers -- 3.3 Granular Walkers -- 3.4 Perspectives -- 4 Features of Interfaced and Confined Experimental Active Nematics -- 4.1 Active Nematic Free and Under Lateral Confinement -- 4.2 Free and Laterally Confined Active Nenamtics -- 5 Phases of Planar Active Matter in Two Dimensions -- 5.1 Introduction
5.2 Models and Observables -- 5.3 A Reminder on Phase Transitions -- 5.4 Equilibrium Phases in Two Dimensions -- 5.5 Active Systems -- 5.6 Concluding Remarks -- 6 Active Field Theories -- 6.1 Field Theories in Soft Matter -- 6.2 Active Versus Passive Field Theories -- 6.3 From Scalar Active Particles to Scalar Field Theory -- 6.4 Entropy Production in Active Field Theories -- 6.5 Active Model H -- 6.6 Active Model B+ -- 6.7 Conclusion and Outlook -- Part 2 Passive and Active Colloidal Systems -- 7 Active Brownian Particles with Programmable Interaction Rules -- 7.1 Introduction
7.2 Self-propulsion of Active Brownian Particles Induced by Light -- 7.3 Experimental Realization of Quorum Sensing with ABPS -- 7.4 Experimental Results -- 7.5 Conclusion and Outlook -- 8 Phoretic Active Matter -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 What Is Diffusiophoresis? -- 8.3 Microscopic Theory of Diffusiophoresis -- 8.4 Self-diffusiophoresis -- 8.5 Stochastic Dynamics of Phoretically Active Particles -- 8.6 Experiments on Self-phoresis -- 8.7 Apolar Active Colloids: Swarming Due to External Steering -- 8.8 Mixtures of Apolar Active Colloids: Active Molecules
8.9 Mixtures of Apolar Active Colloids: Stability of Suspensions -- 8.10 Polar Active Colloids: Moment Expansion -- 8.11 Polar Active Colloids: Scattering and Orbiting -- 8.12 Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Active Enzymes -- 8.13 Phoresis on the Slow Lane: Trail-following Bacteria -- 8.14 Chemotaxis and Cell Division -- 8.15 Concluding Remarks -- 9 Nanotribology of Commensurate and Incommensurate Colloidal Monolayers on Periodic Surfaces -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Topological Excitations in Commensurate and Incommensurate Monolayer -- 9.3 Vanishing Static Friction: The Aubry Transition
Summary The topic of the CXII session of the Les Houches Summer School, held in September 2018, was Active Matter and Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics, offering a broad introduction to the foundations and modern applications of active matter and nonequilibrium physics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes 9.4 Conclusion and Outlook
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Subject Statistical physics -- Congresses
Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics -- Congresses
Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
Statistical physics
Genre/Form Electronic books
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Gompper, Gerhard, editor.
Marchetti, M. Cristina, editor
Tailleur, Julien, editor
Yeomans, Julia M., editor
Salomon, C. (Christophe), editor.
ISBN 9780192674098
0192674099
9780191949128
0191949124