Wed 19/07/2023 15:00
Room V11 of the Faculty of Physics, University of Barcelona, Martí i Franquès, 1-11, 08028 Barcelona
Active matter, non-reciprocal interactions and entropy production.
DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
Active matter typically transforms chemical energy into motion at the local, microscopic scale. Examples of active matter range from molecular motors to swimming bacteria and self-propelling colloids. In this talk, I will focus on collective active motion that emerges from non-reciprocal interactions between particles of two different types. This is a basic model of the formation and self-propulsion of active colloids based on attractive-repulsive interaction forces between two types of otherwise non-motile microspheres. I will further show how we use field theory to calculate the entropy production of this non-equilibrium system.