Survival strategies of artificial active agents.

ABSTRACT: Artificial cells can be engineered to display dynamics sharing remarkable features in common with the survival behavior of living organisms. In particular, such active systems can respond to stimuli provided by the environment and undertake specific displacements to remain out of equilibrium, e.g. by moving towards regions with higher fuel concentration. In spite of the intense experimental activity aiming at investigating this fascinating behavior, a rigorous definition and characterization of such "survival strategies" from a statistical physics perspective is still missing. In this work, we take a first step in this direction by adapting and applying to active systems the theoretical framework of Transition Path Theory, which was originally introduced to investigate rare thermally activ

SUBMITTER: Zanovello L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10079664 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature