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Register a new userSingle active particle engine utilizing a non-reciprocal coupling between particles position and self-propulsion
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Grzegorz Szamel
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We recently argued that a self-propelled particle is formally equivalent to a system consisting of two subsystems coupled by a non-reciprocal interaction [Phys. Rev. E 100, 050603(R) (2019)]. Here we show that this non-reciprocal coupling allows to extract useful work from a single self-propelled particle maintained at constant temperature, by using an aligning interaction to influence correlations between the particles position and self-propulsion.
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