Active Matter and Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics
Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 112, September 2018
Published on 1. November 2022
Book
Hardback
666 pages
978-0-19-285831-3 (ISBN)
Description
From molecular motors to bacteria, from crawling cells to large animals, active entities are found at all scales in the biological world. Active matter encompasses systems whose individual constituents irreversibly dissipate energy to exert self-propelling forces on their environment. Over the past twenty years, scientists have managed to engineer synthetic active particles in the lab, paving the way towards smart active materials. This book gathers a pedagogical set of lecture notes that cover topics in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and active matter. These lecture notes stem from the first summer school on Active Matter delivered at the Les Houches school of Physics. The lectures covered four main research directions: collective behaviours in active-matter systems, passive and active colloidal systems, biophysics and active matter, and nonequilibrium statistical physics-from passive to active.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
180 figures and colour halftones
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 253 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
1394 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-285831-3 (9780192858313)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Julien Tailleur | Gerhard Gompper | M. Cristina Marchetti
Active Matter and Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics
Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 112, September 2018
E-Book
10/2022
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€56.99
Available for download
Persons
Julien Tailleur is a statistical physicist working at CNRS and Universite de Paris. He has worked on a broad range of problems in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and its applications to biophysics and active matter.
Gerhard Gompper is Professor of Physics at University of Cologne and Institute Director at Forschungszentrum Juelich. He was educated at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, where he also earned his PhD.
Cristina Marchetti is Professor of Physics at the University of California Santa Barbara. She was educated in Italy at the University of Pavia, earned her Ph.D. in the U.S. at the University of Florida, and joined the faculty at UC Santa Barbara in 2018.
Julia Yeomans is Professor of Physics and Head of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford and Pauline Chan Fellow at St Hilda's College Oxford.
Christophe Salomon is Directeur de Recherches au CNRS, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS Paris.
Gerhard Gompper is Professor of Physics at University of Cologne and Institute Director at Forschungszentrum Juelich. He was educated at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, where he also earned his PhD.
Cristina Marchetti is Professor of Physics at the University of California Santa Barbara. She was educated in Italy at the University of Pavia, earned her Ph.D. in the U.S. at the University of Florida, and joined the faculty at UC Santa Barbara in 2018.
Julia Yeomans is Professor of Physics and Head of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford and Pauline Chan Fellow at St Hilda's College Oxford.
Christophe Salomon is Directeur de Recherches au CNRS, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS Paris.
Editor
Director of ResearchDirector of Research, CNRS, University of Paris
Professor of PhysicsProfessor of Physics, University of Cologne
Professor of PhysicsProfessor of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara
Professor of PhysicsProfessor of Physics, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford
Director of Research at CNRSDirector of Research at CNRS, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS Paris
Content
Introduction
Part 1: Collective behaviours in active-matter systems
1: Hugues Chate and Benoit Mahault: Dry, aligning, dilute, active matter: A synthetic and self-contained overview
2: John Toner: Why walking is easier than pointing: Hydrodynamics of dry active matter
3: Olivier Dauchot: Collective Motion in Active Materials: Model Experiments
4: Francesc Sagues, Pau Guillamat, Jerome Hardouein, Berta Martinez-Prat, and Jordi Ignes-Mullol: Features of interfaced and confined experimental active nematics
5: Leticia Cugliandolo and Giuseppe Gonnella: Phases of planar active matter
6: Michael E. Cates: Active Field Theories
Part 2: Passive & active colloidal systems
7: Celia Lozano, Tobias Baeuerle, and Clemens Bechinger: "Active brownian particles with programmable interaction rules"
8: Ramin Golestanian: Phoretic Active Matter
9: Thorsten Brazda, Xin Cao, and Clemens Bechinger: Nanotribology of Commensurate and Incommensurate Colloidal Monolayers on Periodic Surfaces
Part 3: From biophysics to active matter
10: Jean-Francois and Joanny Louis Brezin: Tissues as active materials
11: Erwin Frey and Fridtjof Brauns: Self-organisation of protein patterns
12: Eric R. Dufresne: Active materials: Biological benchmarks and transport limitations
Part 4: Non-equilibrium statistical physics, from passive to active
13: Daan Frenkel: Modelling the microscopic origins of active transport
14: Mehran Kardar: Fluctuation Induced Forces in and out of Equilibrium
15: Ludovic Berthier and Jorge Kurchan: Active glassy materials
16: Ydan Ben Dor, Yariv Kafri, and Julien Tailleur: Forces in dry active matter
17: Suzanne M. Fielding: Rheology of complex and active fluids
Part 1: Collective behaviours in active-matter systems
1: Hugues Chate and Benoit Mahault: Dry, aligning, dilute, active matter: A synthetic and self-contained overview
2: John Toner: Why walking is easier than pointing: Hydrodynamics of dry active matter
3: Olivier Dauchot: Collective Motion in Active Materials: Model Experiments
4: Francesc Sagues, Pau Guillamat, Jerome Hardouein, Berta Martinez-Prat, and Jordi Ignes-Mullol: Features of interfaced and confined experimental active nematics
5: Leticia Cugliandolo and Giuseppe Gonnella: Phases of planar active matter
6: Michael E. Cates: Active Field Theories
Part 2: Passive & active colloidal systems
7: Celia Lozano, Tobias Baeuerle, and Clemens Bechinger: "Active brownian particles with programmable interaction rules"
8: Ramin Golestanian: Phoretic Active Matter
9: Thorsten Brazda, Xin Cao, and Clemens Bechinger: Nanotribology of Commensurate and Incommensurate Colloidal Monolayers on Periodic Surfaces
Part 3: From biophysics to active matter
10: Jean-Francois and Joanny Louis Brezin: Tissues as active materials
11: Erwin Frey and Fridtjof Brauns: Self-organisation of protein patterns
12: Eric R. Dufresne: Active materials: Biological benchmarks and transport limitations
Part 4: Non-equilibrium statistical physics, from passive to active
13: Daan Frenkel: Modelling the microscopic origins of active transport
14: Mehran Kardar: Fluctuation Induced Forces in and out of Equilibrium
15: Ludovic Berthier and Jorge Kurchan: Active glassy materials
16: Ydan Ben Dor, Yariv Kafri, and Julien Tailleur: Forces in dry active matter
17: Suzanne M. Fielding: Rheology of complex and active fluids