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Statistical physics of equilibrium systems provides today a well-established framework for classical thermodynamics. However, most ‘real world’ systems found in condensed matter, biology, natural or industrial macrocosms are out-of-equilibrium, either because of the presence of external forcing or because they cannot relax back to equilibrium. These systems are often non-linear, disordered and/or complex and present emerging properties of their own.
The goal of SPHYNX is to gather researchers working on different objects but using common tools, those of the statistical physics to tackle the same challenge, that of complexity.
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Activity waves and freestanding vortices in subcritical active matter
In a recent paper published in PNAS, Hugues Chaté (IRAMIS/SPEC), Xia-qing Shi and the group of Tian Hui Zhang (Soochow University) show that subcritical active matter exhibits novel collective…
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