An introduction to active matter 1100-4IAM
Topic 1. Active matter: what it is? Why active matter? Flocks, shoals. A review of statistical mechanics.
Computer Lab 1: A refresher to python using Google Collab
Topic 2. Systems out of thermodynamic equilibrium. Fick's law of
diffusion. Langevin equation. Brownian Motion. Ornstein–Uhlenbeck
process
Computer Lab 2: Random Walks. Brownian Motion. Mean Square Displacement.
Correlation Functions.
Topic 3. Dry active matter. Vicsek model. Polar order. Active Brownian
particles. Athermal Phase separation.
Computer Lab 3: A premier to Molecular Dynamics: Linked lists, neighbor
lists. Force Potentials
Topic 4. The Navier–Stokes equation. Nematic liquid crystals. Order
Parameters. Landau Theory of Liquid Crystals. Nematodynamics. Active
nematics.
Computer Lab 4: Vicsek model/Athermal Phase separation/A colloid model
for active nematics.
Założenia (opisowo)
Kryteria oceniania
(1) Participation in the classes, (2) Proposed exercises and Python
notebooks explaining the solutions, (3) a final project of choice to be
defended as an oral exam.
Literatura
Chaikin, Paul M., Tom C. Lubensky, and Thomas A. Witten. Principles of
condensed matter physics. Vol. 10. Cambridge: Cambridge university
press, 1995.
Zwanzig, Robert. Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. Oxford University
Press, 2001.
Ramaswamy, S. (2010). The mechanics and statistics of active matter.
Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 1, 323–345.
Marchetti, M. C., Joanny, J. F., Ramaswamy, S., Liverpool, T. B., Prost,
J., Rao, M., & Simha, R. A. (2013). Hydrodynamics of soft active matter.
Reviews of Modern Physics, 85(3), 1143–1189.
De Magistris, G., & Marenduzzo, D. (2015). An introduction to the
physics of active matter. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its
Applications, 418, 65–77.
Ramaswamy, S. (2017). Active matter. Journal of Statistical Mechanics:
Theory and Experiment, 2017(5), 054002.
Berthier, L., & Kurchan, J. (2019). Lectures on nonequilibrium active
systems. ArXiv.
Shaebani, M. R., Wysocki, A., Winkler, R. G., Gompper, G., & Rieger, H.
(2020). Computational models for active matter. Nature Reviews Physics,
2(4), 181–199.
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