Active Matter and Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 112, September 2018 Tailleur Julien

From molecular motors to bacteria, from crawling cells to large animals, active entities are found at all scales in the biological world. Over the past twenty years, scientists have managed to engineer synthetic active particles in the lab, paving the way towards smart active materials. Active matter encompasses systems whose individual constituents irreversibly dissipate energy to exert self-propelling forces on their environment.

These lecture notes stem from the first summer school on Active Matter delivered at the Les Houches school of Physics. This book gathers a pedagogical set of lecture notes that cover topics in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and active matter. The lectures covered four main research directions: collective behaviours in active-matter systems, passive and active colloidal systems, biophysics and active matter, and nonequilibrium statistical