Preprints

• Rheology of dense vibrated granular flows: non-monotonic response controlled by granular temperature A Plati, G Petrillo, L de Arcangelis, A Gnoli, A Puglisi, A Sarracino, E Lippiello preprint arXiv:2507.03615

Recently published papers

2025

• Local entropy production rate of run-and-tumble particles M Paoluzzi, A Puglisi and L Angelani, Phys. Rev. E 112, 054109 (2025)

• Active-like dynamics of worm-like chains driven by an external traveling-wave force F Cecconi, A Puglisi, M Viale, D Lucente, Soft Matter 21 (25), 5138-5152 (2025)

• Bridge, Reverse Bridge, and Their Control A Baldassarri, A Puglisi, Entropy 27 (7), 718 (2025)

• A brief introduction to the inference of entropy production through the fluctuations of currents A Puglisi, Europhysics Letters 150 (6), 67001 (2025)

• Random exchange dynamics with bounds: H-theorem and negative temperature D Lucente, M Baldovin, A Puglisi, A Vulpiani, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2025 (1), 013210

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2024

• Thermal fluctuations for a three-beads swimmer R Ferretta, R Di Leonardo, A Puglisi, Physical Review Research 6 (3), 033117

• Entropy production of run-and-tumble particles M Paoluzzi, A Puglisi, L Angelani, Entropy 26 (6), 443

• Thermodynamic uncertainty relations in the presence of non-linear friction and memory A Plati, A Puglisi, A Sarracino, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 57 (15), 155001

• Thermodynamic precision of a chain of motors: the difference between phase and noise correlation G Costantini, A Puglisi, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2024 (2), 024003

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2023

• Rescaling invariance and anomalous energy transport in a small vertical column of grains A Gnoli, G Pontuale, A Puglisi, A Petri, Physical Review E 108 (5), 054906

• Revealing the nonequilibrium nature of a granular intruder: the crucial role of non-Gaussian behavior D Lucente, M Viale, A Gnoli, A Puglisi, A Vulpiani, Physical Review Letters 131 (7), 078201

• Entropons as collective excitations in active solids L Caprini, U Marini Bettolo Marconi, A Puglisi, H Löwen, The Journal of Chemical Physics 159 (4)

• Thermodynamic limits of sperm swimming precision C Maggi, F Saglimbeni, VC Sosa, R Di Leonardo, B Nath, A Puglisi, PRX life 1 (1), 013003

• Thermodynamic bounds for diffusion in nonequilibrium systems with multiple timescales A Plati, A Puglisi, A Sarracino, Physical Review E 107 (4), 044132

• A microfluidic method for passive trapping of sperms in microstructures B Nath, L Caprini, C Maggi, A Zizzari, V Arima, I Viola, R Di Leonardo, ..., Lab on a Chip 23 (4), 773-784

Older papers 

• Inference of time irreversibility from incomplete information: Linear systems and its pitfalls D Lucente, A Baldassarri, A Puglisi, A Vulpiani, M Viale, Physical Review Research 4 (4), 043103 (2022)

• Collective drifts in vibrated granular packings: the interplay of friction and structure, A Plati, A Puglisi, Physical review letters 128 (20), 208001 (2022)

• Hydrodynamics of simple active liquids: the emergence of velocity correlations UMB Marconi, L Caprini, A Puglisi, New Journal of Physics 23 (10), 103024 (2022)

• Optimization of an active heat engine, G Gronchi, A Puglisi, Physical Review E 103 (5), 052134 (2021)

• Fluctuation–dissipation relations in active matter systems L Caprini, A Puglisi, A Sarracino, Symmetry 13 (1), 81 (2021)

• Narrow-escape time and sorting of active particles in circular domains M Paoluzzi, L Angelani, A Puglisi, Physical Review E 102 (4), 042617 (2020)

• Engineered swift equilibration of a Brownian gyrator A Baldassarri, A Puglisi, L Sesta, Physical Review E 102 (3), 030105 (2020)

• Spontaneous velocity alignment in motility-induced phase separation L Caprini, U Marini Bettolo Marconi, A Puglisi, Physical review letters 124 (7), 078001 (2020)

• Dynamical collective memory in fluidized granular materials, A Plati, A Baldassarri, A Gnoli, G Gradenigo, A Puglisi, Physical review letters 123 (3), 038002 (2019)

• Controlled viscosity in dense granular materials A Gnoli, L De Arcangelis, F Giacco, E Lippiello, MP Ciamarra, A Puglisi, ..., Physical Review Letters 120 (13), 138001 (2018)

• Lattice model to derive the fluctuating hydrodynamics of active particles with inertia A Manacorda, A Puglisi, Physical review letters 119 (20), 208003 (2017)

• Heat, temperature and Clausius inequality in a model for active Brownian particles UMB Marconi, A Puglisi, C Maggi, Scientific reports 7 (1), 46496 (2017)

• Nonlinear response of inertial tracers in steady laminar flows: differential and absolute negative mobility A Sarracino, F Cecconi, A Puglisi, A Vulpiani, Physical review letters 117 (17), 174501 (2016)

• Thermal convection in granular gases with dissipative lateral walls G Pontuale, A Gnoli, FV Reyes, A Puglisi, Physical review letters 117 (9), 098006 (2016)

• Cages and anomalous diffusion in vibrated dense granular media C Scalliet, A Gnoli, A Puglisi, A Vulpiani,  Physical review letters 114 (19), 198001 (2015)

• Nonequilibrium Brownian motion beyond the effective temperature A Gnoli, A Puglisi, A Sarracino, A Vulpiani, PloS one 9 (4), e93720 (2014)

• Brownian ratchet in a thermal bath driven by coulomb friction A Gnoli, A Petri, F Dalton, G Pontuale, G Gradenigo, A Sarracino, ..., Physical review letters 110 (12), 120601 (2013)

• Shaken granular lasers V Folli, A Puglisi, L Leuzzi, C Conti, Physical review letters 108 (24), 248002 (2012)

• Nonequilibrium and information: The role of cross correlations. A Crisanti, A Puglisi, D Villamaina, Physical Review E 85 (6), 061127 (2012)

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Last conferences I have organised:

• September 2024 Rome, "Non-linear paths in out-of-equilibrium  Statistical Physics" -  https://sites.google.com/view/av70rome

• July 2022 Rome, "Coarse-grained description for non-equilibrium systems and transport phenomena" -    https://sites.google.com/view/coarsegrained2022/home

• November 2022, Pisa, "Boltzmann Equation and Irreversibility: after 150 years an evergreen problem" - https://sites.google.com/view/boltzmannequation2022

• a conference on the origin of theoretical models November 27-29, 2019 at Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, see webpage

• a conference on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Small Systems September 18-20, 2017 in Rome at Sapienza University

• a small workshop on Statistical Mechanics of non-Hamiltonian systems May 12-13, 2015 in Rome at Sapienza University, see webpage

• a conference on Strolling on Chaos, Turbulence and Statistical Mechanics September 22-24, 2014 in Rome at Sapienza University

• a 1-month program on Small system nonequilibrium fluctuations, dynamics and stochastics, and anomalous behavior, July 1-26, 2013 in Beijing (China) at Kavli-China institute, see webpage

• a conference on Large deviations and rare events in physics and biology September 23-25, 2013 in Rome at Sapienza University

• June 2012, Isola del Giglio, "Non-equilibrium fluctuation-response relations" -  http://tnt.phys.uniroma1.it/~fdt/

• a day on Quasi-fluids and quasi-solids: the dynamics of active and granular matter held during the XVII National Conference on Statistical Physics held in Parma, June 20-22, 2012

• Anomalous Transport: from Billiards to Nanosystems conference held in Sperlonga from 20 to 24 September 2010

Courses

Corso di dottorato (Ph.D): Introduction to stochastic thermodynamics : notes

Corso 2' anno laurea specialistica in fisica (valido anche per dottorandi): Introduzione alla teoria dei processi stocastici e applicazioni in fisica : informazioni (no more active)

Corso di dottorato (Ph. D.): Fluidized granular materials : program - lessons.pdf  (the course is no more active)

A very complete historical and conceptual introduction to Brownian Motion and the concept of velocity in it: preprint