Nonperturbative analysis on non-equilibrium phase transition in soft materials

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K17737
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Biological physics/Chemical physics/Soft matter physics
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Yabunaka Shunsuke 京都大学, 福井謙一記念研究センター, 特定研究員 (60749852)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 繰り込み / 多重臨界点 / 細胞組織 / 連続体理論 / 自己推進粒子

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Phase transition phenomena in equilibrium environments are well understood, but phase transition phenomena in non-equilibrium environments, where energy and material flows exist, are not well understood. In order to investigate phase transition phenomena in non-equilibrium environments, I constructed several continuum equations for active materials, such as cellular tissues and self-propelled particles, and developed the method of renormalization group, which is useful for defining universality classes of phase transition.

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