Swimming crystals and Simha-Ramaswamy instability

Statistical Physics and Complexity Group meeting

Swimming crystals and Simha-Ramaswamy instability

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I will discuss the origin of the instability proposed by Simha and Ramaswamy, Phys Rev Lett 89, 058101 (2002) in generic models of active matter and show how it naturally arises in suspensions of swimming microorganisms.