Publications of Benoit Mahault

Yu Duan, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Ramin Golestanian, and Benoit Mahault, "Phase coexistence in nonreciprocal quorum-sensing active matter," Physical Review Research 7, 013234 (2025).

Luca Cocconi, Benoit Mahault, and Lorenzo Piro, "Dissipation-accuracy tradeoffs in autonomous control of smart active matter," New Journal of Physics 27 (1), 013002 (2025).

Maximilian Kurjahn, Leila Abbaspour, Franziska Papenfuß, Philip Bittihn, Ramin Golestanian, Benoit Mahault, and Stefan Karpitschka, "Collective self-caging of active filaments in virtual confinement," Nature Communications 15, 9122 (2024).

Lorenzo Piro, Andrej Vilfan, Ramin Golestanian, and Benoit Mahault, "Energetic cost of microswimmer navigation: The role of body shape," Physical Review Research 6 (1), 013274 (2024).

Jacopo Romano, Benoit Mahault, and Ramin Golestanian, "Dynamical theory of topological defects II: universal aspects of defect motion," Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2024, 033208 (2024).

Yu Duan, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Ramin Golestanian, and Benoit Mahault, "Dynamical Pattern Formation without Self-Attraction in Quorum-Sensing Active Matter: The Interplay between Nonreciprocity and Motility," Physical Review Letters 131, 148301 (2023).

Jacopo Romano, Benoit Mahault, and Ramin Golestanian, "Dynamical theory of topological defects I: the multivalued solution of the diffusion equation," Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2023, 083211 (2023).

Jonas Berx, Aritra Bose, Ramin Golestanian, and Benoit Mahault, "Reentrant condensation transition in a model of driven scalar active matter with diffusivity edge," EPL 142 (6), 67004 (2023).

Benoit Mahault, Prakhar Godara, and Ramin Golestanian, "Emergent organization and polarization due to active fluctuations," Physical Review Research 5, L022012 (2023).

Lorenzo Piro, Ramin Golestanian, and Benoit Mahault, "Efficiency of navigation strategies for active particles in rugged landscapes," Frontiers in Physics 10, 1034267 (2022).

Benoit Mahault, Evelyn Tang, and Ramin Golestanian, "A topological fluctuation theorem," Nature Communications 13, 3036 (2022).

Lorenzo Piro, Benoit Mahault, and Ramin Golestanian, "Optimal navigation of microswimmers in complex and noisy environments," New Journal of Physics 24, 093037 (2022).

Benoit Mahault and Hugues Chaté, "Long-Range Nematic Order in Two-Dimensional Active Matter," Physical Review Letters 127, 048003 (2021).

Yu Duan, Benoit Mahault, Yu-qiang Ma, Xia-qing Shi, and Hugues Chaté, "Breakdown of Ergodicity and Self-Averaging in Polar Flocks with Quenched Disorder," Physical Review Letters 126, 178001 (2021).

Fanlong Meng, Daiki Matsunaga, Benoit Mahault, and Ramin Golestanian, "Magnetic Microswimmers Exhibit Bose-Einstein-like Condensation," Physical Review Letters 126, 078001 (2021).

Benoit Mahault and Ramin Golestanian, "Bose-Einstein-like Condensation due to Diffusivity Edge under Periodic Confinement," New Journal of Physics 22 (6), 063045 (2020).

Benoit Mahault, F. Ginelli, and H. Chate, "Quantitative assessment of the Toner and Tu theory of polar flocks," Physical Review Letters 123 (21), 218001 (2019).