Unit 5

The CNR unit includes Fabio Cecconi, Andrea Baldassarri, Paolo Politi, Andrea Puglisi and Alessandro Sarracino.

The main research lines are: non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, granular matter (theory and experiments), transport, stochastic processes.

List of published papers:

1) L Caprini, F Cecconi, A Puglisi, A Sarracino, Diffusion properties of self-propelled particles in cellular flows, Soft Matter 16, 5431 (2020)

2) A Sarracino, O Arviv, O Shriki, L de Arcangelis, Predicting brain evoked response to external stimuli from temporal correlations of spontaneous activity, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033355 (2020)

3) A Plati, A Puglisi, Slow time scales in a dense vibrofluidized granular material, Phys. Rev. E 102, 012908 (2020)

4) L Caprini, UMB Marconi, A Puglisi, Spontaneous Velocity Alignment in Motility-Induced Phase Separation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 078001 (2020)

5) M Baldovin, F Cecconi, A Vulpiani, Effective equations for reaction coordinates in polymer transport. J. Stat. Mech.: Theory Exp. P013208 (2020)

6) F Corberi, E Lippiello, P Politi, Quasideterministic dynamics, memory effects, and lack of self-averaging in the relaxation of quenched ferromagnets, Phys. Rev. E 102, 020102(R) (2020)

7) L Caprini, A Puglisi, A Sarracino, Fluctuation–Dissipation Relations in Active Matter Systems, Symmetry 13 (1), 81 (2021)

8) A Plati, L de Arcangelis, A Gnoli, E Lippiello, A Puglisi, A Sarracino, Getting hotter by heating less: How driven granular materials dissipate energy in excess, Physical Review Research 3 (1), 013011 (2021)

9) D Raimo, A Sarracino, L de Arcangelis, Role of inhibitory neurons in temporal correlations of critical and supercritical spontaneous activity, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 565, 125555 (2021)

10) L Costanzo, A Lo Schiavo, A Sarracino, M Vitelli, Stochastic thermodynamics of a piezoelectric energy harvester model, Entropy 23 (6), 677 (2021)

11) A de Candia, A Sarracino, I Apicella, L de Arcangelis, Critical behaviour of the stochastic Wilson-Cowan model. PLoS Comput Biol 17(8): e1008884 (2021)