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 physicsDLfrom passive to active.
Edited by:
Julien Tailleur (Director of Research Director of Research CNRS University of Paris),
Gerhard Gompper (Professor of Physics,
Professor of Physics,
University of Cologne),
M. Cristina Marchetti (Professor of Physics,
Professor of Physics,
University of California Santa Barbara),
Julia M. Yeomans (Professor of Physics,
Professor of Physics,
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford),
Christophe Salomon (Director of Research at CNRS,
Director of Research at CNRS,
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel,
ENS Paris)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 112
Dimensions:
Height: 253mm,
Width: 175mm,
Spine: 39mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780192858313
ISBN 10: 0192858319
Series: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School
Pages: 672
Publication Date: 21 October 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"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, Jérôme Hardoüin, Berta Martinez-Prat, and Jordi Ignés-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 Bäuerle, 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-François and Joanny Louis Brézin: 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"
Julien Tailleur is a statistical physicist working at CNRS and Université 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 Jülich. 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.
