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Odd elasticity of a catalytic micromachine

Soft Condensed Matter 2023-06-28 v2

Abstract

We perform numerical simulations of a model micromachine driven by catalytic chemical reactions. Our model includes a mechano-chemical coupling between the structural variables and the nonequilibrium variable describing the catalytic reactions. The time-correlation functions of the structural variables are calculated and further analyzed in terms of odd Langevin dynamics. We obtain the effective odd elastic constant that manifests the broken time-reversal symmetry of a catalytic micromachine. Within the simulation, we separately estimate the quantity called nonreciprocality and show that its behavior is similar to that of the odd elasticity.Our approach suggests a new method to extract the nonequilibrium properties of a micromachine only by measuring its structural dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.2211.16089,
  title  = {Odd elasticity of a catalytic micromachine},
  author = {Akira Kobayashi and Kento Yasuda and Kenta Ishimoto and Li-Shing Lin and Isamu Sou and Yuto Hosaka and Shigeyuki Komura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.16089},
  year   = {2023}
}