Colloquium: Inclusions, boundaries, and disorder in scalar active matter

O Granek, Y Kafri, M Kardar, S Ro, J Tailleur… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Active systems are driven out of equilibrium by exchanging energy and momentum with their
environment. This endows them with anomalous mechanical properties that are reviewed in …

Effective Energy, Interactions And Out Of Equilibrium Nature Of Scalar Active Matter

A Brossollet, E Lempereur, S Mallat, G Biroli - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Estimating the effective energy, $ E_\text {eff} $ of a stationary probability distribution is a
challenge for non-equilibrium steady states. Its solution could offer a novel framework for …