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Irreversibility and symmetry breaking in the creation and annihilation of defects in active living matter

2025-04-11

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Active living matter continuously creates and annihilates topological defects in a process that remains poorly understood. Here, we investigate these dynamics in two distinct active living systems—swarming bacteria and human bronchial epithelial cells. Despite their entirely different evolutionary origins, biological functions, and physical scales, both systems exhibit half-integer defe...

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Literature Corpus work: f73c4df3-c175-585d-ad7e-b32106da116a
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6339232/v1

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