Internally driven solids

ORAL

Abstract

What is the long-wavelength, long-time dynamics of an elastic solid composed of motile orientable particles? Can different types of interactions between the motile particles lead to different varieties of active solid? What is the dynamics if the motile particles orient along a spontaneously chosen axis? Is it different from a passive solid which is driven externally? What if the inter-particle interactions instead favour aster-like configurations? I will present an answer to these questions and point out the differences and similarities between internally driven and externally driven solids.

Authors

  • Ananyo Maitra

    Indian Inst of Science

  • Suropriya Saha

    Indian Inst of Science

  • Ramin Golestanian

    Rudolf Peierls Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom

  • Sriram Ramaswamy

    TCIS, TIFR, TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, 21 Brundavan Colony, Narsingi, Hyderabad 500075