Active Matter 笔记
14 七月 2017 by yx- 20170714 Active-Matter Thermodynamics Under Pressure ... Is defining the equation of state for active matter merely of academic interest? For now, we don’t know. It could become influential if researchers are able to produce practically use- ful active materials or to extend the elegant experiments and theories that describe self-propelled disks and colloids to na- ture’s most abundant type of active matter: cells. Biological systems are typically associated with different symmetries and conservation laws than granular and colloidal systems. Defining an equation of state for cell tissue would, without a doubt, be a breakthrough. But for the theoretical, experimen- tal, and simulation tools available today, such a description is still out of reach.