I am a theoretical physicist interested in the study of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and its application to living matter. My current research work particularly focuses on emergent self-organized behaviors of living and nonliving active matter systems, such as the transition to collective motion or Bose-Einstein-like condensation due to motility inhibition.
I obtained my Ph.D. from Université Paris-Saclay in 2018 working with Hugues Chaté. After occupying a short postdoctoral position in the former group of Prof. Masaki Sano at Tokyo University, I joined the Living Matter Physics Department in 2019 as a postdoctoral researcher and was promoted to group leader in 2021.
Selected publications
Benoît Mahault, Evelyn Tang, Ramin Golestanian, A topological fluctuation theorem, Nature Communications 13, 3036 (2022).
Joan Codina, Benoît Mahault, Hugues Chaté, Jure Dobnikar, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, Xia-qing Shi, Small Obstacle in a Large Polar Flock, Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 218001 (2022)
Fanlong Meng, Daiki Matsunaga, Benoît Mahault, and Ramin Golestanian, Magnetic microswimmers exhibit Bose-Einstein-like condensation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 078001 (2021).
Benoît Mahault and Hugues Chaté, Long-Range Nematic Order in Two-Dimensional Active Matter, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 048003 (2021).
Yu Duan, Benoît Mahault, Yu-qiang Ma, Xia-qing Shi, and Hugues Chaté, Breakdown of Ergodicity and Self-Averaging in Polar Flocks with Quenched Disorder, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 178001 (2021).
Benoît Mahault, and Ramin Golestanian, Bose–Einstein-like condensation due to diffusivity edge under periodic confinement, New J. Phys. 22 063045 (2020).
Benoît Mahault, Francesco Ginelli, and Hugues Chaté, Quantitative assessment of the Toner and Tu theory of polar Flocks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 218001 (2019).