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Active systems do not require external energy input in an explicit form, as sketched in Fig. 1.1, but are capable of independent motion. Of course, a hidden energy input is always present, in the form of chemical reactions driving colloidal particles or, on a far more complicated level, sustaining living organisms, but this lies outside phenomenological description.
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Pismen, L. (2023). 6 Patterns of Active Matter. In: Patterns and Interfaces in Dissipative Dynamics. Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29579-9_7
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