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Extreme Spontaneous Deformations of Active Crystals

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We demonstrate that two-dimensional crystals made of active particles can experience extremely large spontaneous deformations without melting. Using particles mostly interacting via pairwise repulsive forces, we show that such active crystals maintain long-range bond order and algebraically decaying positional order, but with an exponent eta not limited by the 31 bound given by the (equilibrium) KTHNY theory. We rationalize our findings using linear elastic theory and show the existence of two well-defined effective temperatures quantifying respectively large-scale deformations and bond-order fluctuations. The root of these phenomena lies in the sole time-persistence of the intrinsic axes of particles, and they should thus be observed in many different situations.

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cea-04485915 , version 1 (01-03-2024)

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Xia-Qing Shi, Fu Cheng, Hugues Chaté. Extreme Spontaneous Deformations of Active Crystals. Physical Review Letters, 2023, 131 (10), pp.108301. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.108301⟩. ⟨cea-04485915⟩
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