Pressure is not a state function for generic active fluids
Pressure is the mechanical force per unit area that a confined system exerts on its container. In thermal equilibrium, it depends only on bulk properties-such as density and temperature-through an equation of state. Here we show that in a wide class of active systems the pressure depends on the prec...
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Nature Publishing Group,
2017-04-21T15:44:35Z.
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