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Author(s): David Martin, Hugues Chaté, Cesare Nardini, Alexandre Solon, Julien Tailleur, and Frédéric Van Wijland We study the role of noise on the nature of the transition to collective motion in dry active matter. Starting from field theories that predict a continuous transition at the deterministic level, we show that fluctuations induce a density-dependent shift of the onset of order, which in turn changes ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 148001...

Author(s): Hyun Woo Cho, Guang Shi, T. R. Kirkpatrick, and D. Thirumalai The number of compact structures of a single condensed polymer (SCP), with similar free energies, grows exponentially with the degree of polymerization. In analogy with structural glasses (SGs), we expect that at low temperatures chain relaxation should occur by activated transitions between the com... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 137801] Published Fri Apr 02, 2021

Author(s): Anita Girelli, Hendrik Rahmann, Nafisa Begam, Anastasia Ragulskaya, Mario Reiser, Sivasurender Chandran, Fabian Westermeier, Michael Sprung, Fajun Zhang, Christian Gutt, and Frank Schreiber While the interplay between liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) and glass formation in biological systems is highly relevant for their structure formation and thus function, the exact underlying mechanisms are not well known. The kinetic arrest...

Author(s): Chen Liu, Suman Dutta, Pinaki Chaudhuri, and Kirsten Martens We develop a framework to study the mechanical response of athermal amorphous solids via a coupling of mesoscale and microscopic models. Using measurements of coarse-grained quantities from simulations of dense disordered particulate systems, we present a coherent elastoplastic model approach for de... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 138005] Published Fri Apr 02, 2021

Author(s): Thomas Speck and Ashreya Jayaram When immersed into a fluid of active Brownian particles, passive bodies might start to undergo linear or angular directed motion depending on their shape. Here we exploit the divergence theorem to relate the forces responsible for this motion to the density and current induced by—but far away from—t... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 138002] Published Wed Mar 31, 2021

Author(s): Tine Curk and Erik Luijten A computational scheme that combines Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics methods dynamically accounts for charge regulation in associating nanoparticles. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 138003] Published Wed Mar 31, 2021

Author(s): Debarghya Banerjee, Vincenzo Vitelli, Frank Jülicher, and Piotr Surówka The odd viscoelastic response of active chiral materials can be described by generalizations of canonical hydrodynamic theories of viscoelasticity. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 138001] Published Mon Mar 29, 2021