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desk verdict A careful, useful conceptual review that makes the coarse-graining dependence of 'active matter' concrete, though the concluding 'observer-independent' phrasing slightly overshoots what the entropy-production argument alone supports. read the letter →

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A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

The paper argues that 'active matter' cannot be given a single observer-independent definition. Its key claim is that we can communicate about active matter only by implicitly agreeing on a coarse-grained perspective, so whether a system is active, driven, or passive depends on the chosen level of description and on how time reversal is defined. The authors survey existing definitions and show that they disagree on borderline systems such as Brownian ratchets, thermostat-driven mixtures, growing cells, and nonreciprocal models. The question matters because new fields such as quantum active matter and nonreciprocal interaction physics need to know what would make a system genuinely active. The paper concludes that 'active' is best understood as a helpful viewpoint that exposes common emergent behavior, not as a property fixed by nature.

What carries the argument

The central object is the informatic entropy production $S = \lim_{t\to\infty} \frac{1}{t}\langle \ln[P_F(\Psi(t))/P_B(\Psi(t))]\rangle$, which measures how much more likely a process is than its time reversal. The paper shows that for one dry active particle this quantity can be zero under two conventions and nonzero under a third, depending on whether particle orientations are tracked and whether they flip sign under time reversal. This dependence on the chosen degrees of freedom and the chosen time-reversal operation carries the argument that activity is a property of a coarse-grained description, not of the underlying physical system.

What would settle it

One concrete test: compute the informatic entropy production in Eq. (1) for a single catalytically active Janus particle while explicitly resolving the solvent and product molecules, using the Hamiltonian time-reversal operation; the paper predicts this vanishes, so activity disappears at full resolution. If a positive, resolution-independent value survives, the central claim is false.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that activity is not a strictly observer-independent or resolution-independent property of a system. On a full atomistic Hamiltonian description, every system looks passive; activity appears only when one chooses a coarse-grained model in which the microscopic energy sources and sinks are not explicit. The paper shows this by computing the informatic entropy production of the same dry active particle in three ways, obtaining different results depending on which variables are tracked and how the time-reversal operation acts on them. From that analysis, the authors conclude that no definition can simultaneously cover all systems commonly called active and exclude all systems that are not, and that the value of the term lies in whether the active viewpoint is a helpful one for the system under study.

Load-bearing premise

The conclusion rests on the claim that no canonical time-reversal convention and no unique set of relevant variables exists; if nature supplied an objective 'right' coarse-graining, entropy production would be fixed and activity could be observer-independent.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • A system can be active at one level of description and passive at another, so competing classifications are not descriptions of different facts but choices of model resolution.
  • Definitions based on self-propulsion are too narrow: active nematics, ultrasound-driven particles, and certain nonreciprocal systems count as active only at a collective or coarse-grained level.
  • There is no purely structural definition of an active field theory, since criteria based on time-reversal symmetry breaking also include reaction-diffusion models, the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation, and other nonequilibrium theories not usually called active.
  • Quantum active matter inherits the same relativity: a quantum system is active only when the reservoir or light field it couples to is coarse-grained away, exactly as in classical cases.
  • The practical role of the word 'active' is to expose similarities in emergent behavior across systems with very different microscopic ingredients.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • An implicit consequence is that active-matter papers should state the level of coarse-graining and the time-reversal convention they adopt, otherwise claims that a system is 'active' are not comparable across research groups.
  • One testable extension would be to quantify 'activity robustness' as the range of coarse-grainings over which a system retains nonzero informatic entropy production; Janus colloids would rank high and sedimenting colloids low, giving a graded alternative to a yes/no classification.
  • For quantum active matter, the same logic implies that a quantum system should be called active only when it is described by an effective nonunitary dynamics after tracing out a reservoir; this would tie the quantum-active debate to the choice of subsystem rather than to intrinsic properties.
  • The paper's borderline examples suggest that controversies such as whether intracellular phase separation is active are model-choice disputes, and rephrasing them as 'which model is more predictive for the observed phenomena' would be more productive.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper asks what the term 'active matter' denotes, and argues that no single definition with necessary and sufficient conditions can capture current usage. It reviews six published definitions, identifies recurring criteria (out-of-equilibrium steady state, local energy influx, generation of motion/forces, directionality), and shows through a table and worked examples that different criteria classify borderline cases differently. The central thesis is that 'active' is a family-resemblance concept whose application always presupposes a coarse-grained level of description. This is developed through a discussion of informatic entropy production and time-reversal conventions, through the distinction between active particles and active field theories, and through case studies of Janus colloids, reactive droplets, ultrasound-driven particles, active nematics, non-reciprocal systems, intracellular phase separation, and quantum active matter.

Significance. If accepted, the paper provides a valuable critical synthesis of a terminologically messy field. Its strengths are the careful historical survey, the explicit comparison of existing definitions, the concrete classification table, and the worked microscopic-to-coarse-grained derivations (for example the chemostatted Janus particle in Section VI A and the reactive thin-film model in Section VI B). The entropy-production formulas in Section III are used correctly, and the Active Model B+ discussion in Section V is accurate. The paper does not claim to prove a mathematical theorem; it offers a reasoned perspective, and on that standard it succeeds. The conclusion that activity is coarse-graining-dependent is well supported and should be useful for ongoing debates about quantum active matter and non-reciprocal systems.

minor comments (5)
  1. [Section VIII and Section III A, Eqs. (3)-(5)] The phrase 'not strictly observer-independent' is stronger than the preceding argument strictly establishes. Equations (3)-(5) show that the informatic entropy production changes when one changes the time-reversal convention or the set of resolved variables, but for a coarse-grained variable that is a known function of microscopic phase-space coordinates the parity under time reversal can be inherited from the microscopic operation. The authors should either argue more explicitly, building on Ref. [104], that no canonical convention exists for the cases considered, or qualify the conclusion as 'level-of-description-dependent'. The central coarse-graining message remains intact because it is independently supported by the examples in Section VI.
  2. [Section V, Eq. (11)] The integrand in Eq. (11) appears to have an index error: starting from Eq. (10), the free-energy decay rate should contain the sum over i and j, i.e. an expression proportional to M_ij (nabla delta F/delta phi_i) dot (nabla delta F/delta phi_j), not a repeated i index in both factors. Please check the typesetting of this equation.
  3. [Section III A, Eq. (4)] The prefactor of the expression for the entropy production in Eq. (4) contains an apparent stray 'T' ('beta D T T'). Please verify the intended formula, since the same equation is referenced later as one of the three possible informatic entropy productions.
  4. [Figure 2 caption] The caption refers to 'Fig. IV' in the text, which should be 'Fig. 2'. There is also a typo, 'classification', in the table row for spherical colloids with multi-species nonreciprocity.
  5. [General] Several typographical errors should be corrected in a final pass: 'large extend' in Section II D, 'accross' in Section II A, 'sence' in Section II B, 'exhitit' in Section V, 'acitve' in Section V, 'colloida' in Section VI, and 'Munchhausen' in Section IV.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the central claim rests on explicit coarse-graining examples and external references, not on self-citations or fitted inputs.

full rationale

This paper is a conceptual review rather than a predictive derivation, so the usual circularity patterns (fitted inputs renamed as predictions, self-citation chains forcing a uniqueness claim, ansatz smuggled in via citation) do not apply. The central claim that activity is not strictly observer-independent is supported by concrete, externally referenced model reductions: the Janus-particle chemostat derivation in Section VI A (Ref. [103]), the reactive-droplet field theory in Section VI B (Ref. [206]), and the ultrasound-particle comparison in Section VI C. The informatic-entropy-production results in Eqs. (3)-(5) are standard stochastic-thermodynamics identities; the paper cites Ref. [104] (co-authored by M. E. Cates) for the technical point that entropy production depends on the choice of coarse-graining and of the TRS operation, but it also cites external work (Ref. [105]) and offers an independent physical analogy (the magnetic-field TRS convention) for the non-canonical character of the TRS choice. The conclusion is therefore not equivalent, by construction, to a fitted parameter or to a self-citation chain. At most, Section VI offers a descriptive definition of activity that makes the coarse-graining conclusion partly definitional, but this is an explicit terminological convention rather than a disguised derivation. No circular step meets the required standard of exact equation reduction or fitted-input renaming.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no fitted parameters and no new physical entities. Its argument rests on interpretive premises about time reversal, coarse-graining, and terminology, listed above.

assumptions (4)
  • standard math Passive equilibrium dynamics is characterized by a noisy gradient flow whose stationary measure is exp(-beta F), i.e., Model B structure.
    Used in Section V to define an 'active field theory' as any theory not of this form; this is a standard result in stochastic thermodynamics and Model B classification.
  • domain assumption There is no objective choice of time-reversal operation; the choice (e.g., whether particle orientation flips sign) is to some extent subjective.
    Used in Section III A to derive three different entropy productions for the same active particle and to ground the claim that activity is observer-dependent.
  • domain assumption A subsystem can be called active if it has an autonomous dynamics described by a closed stochastic equation that breaks detailed balance.
    Proposed in Section VI as the criterion for when a coarse-grained description qualifies as active; it is a definitional premise, not derived.
  • ad hoc to paper The term 'active matter' functions as a family-resemblance concept in the sense of Wittgenstein.
    Introduced in Section II D to explain why no single definition covers all uses; the philosophical analogy is asserted rather than proven.

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As the study of active matter has developed into one of the most rapidly growing subfields of condensed matter physics, more and more kinds of physical systems have been included in this framework. While the word 'active' is often thought of as referring to self-propelled particles, it is also applied to a large variety of other systems such as non-polar active nematics or certain particles with non-reciprocal interactions. Developing novel forms of active matter, as attempted, e.g., in the framework of quantum active matter, requires a clear idea of what active matter is. Here, we critically discuss how the understanding of active matter has changed over time, what precisely a definition of 'active matter' can look like, and to what extent it is (still) possible to define active matter in a way that covers all systems that are commonly understood as active matter while distinguishing them from other driven systems. Moreover, we discuss the definition of an 'active field theory', where 'active' is used as an attribute of a theoretical model rather than of a physical system. We show that the usage of the term 'active' requires agreement on a coarse-grained viewpoint. We discuss the meaning of 'active' both in general terms and via the specific examples of chemically driven particles, ultrasound-driven particles, active nematics, particles with non-reciprocal interactions, intracellular phase separation, and quantum active matter.

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