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Active matter has played a pivotal role in advancing our understanding of non-equilibrium systems, leading to a fundamental shift in the study of biophysical phenomena. The foundation of active matter research is built on assumptions…

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Increasing evidence suggests that active matter exhibits instances of mixed symmetry that cannot be fully described by either polar or nematic formalism. Here, we introduce a minimal model that integrates self-propulsion into the active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Niels de Graaf Sousa , Simon Guldager Andersen , Aleksandra Ardaševa , Amin Doostmohammadi

We examine the dynamics of a compressible active nematic liquid crystal on a frictional substrate. When frictional damping dominates over viscous dissipation, we eliminate flow in favor of active stresses to obtain a minimal dynamical model…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-07 Pragya Srivastava , Prashant Mishra , M. Cristina Marchetti

Global stabilization of viscous Burgers' equation around constant steady state solution has been discussed in the literature. The main objective of this paper is to show global stabilization results for the 2D forced viscous Burgers'…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Sudeep Kundu , Amiya Kumar Pani

One of the defining features of active nematics is that above a critical activity the quiescent state becomes unstable to a distorted, flowing one. We show that spatial variations in activity can fundamentally change the nature of this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-15 Alexander J. H. Houston , Michael Grinfeld , Geoff McKay , Nigel J. Mottram

We study how the finite-sized n-component model A with periodic boundary conditions relaxes near its bulk critical point from an initial nonequilibrium state with short-range correlations. Particular attention is paid to the universal…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 U. Ritschel , H. W. Diehl

With quenched disorder, we introduce two-dimensional active nematics suspended in an incompressible fluid. We write the coarse-grained hydrodynamic equations of motion for slow variables, viz. density, orientation and flow fields. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-14 Sameer Kumar , Shradha Mishra

We numerically investigate how spatial variations of extensile or contractile active stress affect bulk active nematic systems in two and three dimensions. In the absence of defects, activity gradients drive flows which re-orient the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-15 Liam J Ruske , Julia M Yeomans

We study the long-time asymptotics of a certain class of nonlinear diffusion equations with time-dependent diffusion coefficients which arise, for instance, in the study of transport by randomly fluctuating velocity fields. Our primary goal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Gastão A. Braga , Frederico Furtado , Jussara M. Moreira , Leonardo T. Rolla

We present a novel framework for the study of disclinations in two-dimensional active nematic liquid crystals, and topological defects in general. The order tensor formalism is used to calculate exact multi-particle solutions of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-28 Dario Cortese , Jens Eggers , Tanniemola B. Liverpool

We numerically study two-dimensional active nematics with periodic activity patterning. For stripes of activity, we observe a transition from two-dimensional to one-dimensional active turbulence as the maximum active force and distance…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-11 Cody D. Schimming , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

We study by the perturbative Functional Renormalization Group (FRG) the Random Field and Random Anisotropy O(N) models near $d=4$, the lower critical dimension of ferromagnetism. The long-distance physics is controlled by zero-temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthieu Tissier , Gilles Tarjus

The dynamic critical behavior of isotropic Heisenberg ferromagnets with a planar free surface is investigated by means of field-theoretic renormalization group techniques and high-precision computer simulations. An appropriate semi-infinite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. W. Diehl , M. Krech , H. Karl

Renormalization group calculations are used to give exact solutions for rigidity percolation on hierarchical lattices. Algebraic scaling transformations for a simple example in two dimensions produce a transition of second order, with an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-26 R. B. Stinchcombe , M. F Thorpe

We present a complete analysis of the linearised dynamics of active solids with orientational order, taking into account a hitherto overlooked consequence of rotation invariance. Our predictions include the possibility of stable active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-11 Ananyo Maitra , Sriram Ramaswamy

The study of liquid crystals at equilibrium has led to fundamental insights into the nature of ordered materials, as well as to practical applications such as display technologies. Active nematics are a fundamentally different class of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-19 Stephen J. DeCamp , Gabriel S. Redner , Aparna Baskaran , Michael F. Hagan , Zvonimir Dogic

We present a novel approach for model reduction of nonlinear dynamical systems based on proper orthogonal decomposition (POD). Our method, derived from Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG), provides a significant reduction in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Thorsten Bogner

The critical behavior of a model describing phase transitions in 3D antiferromagnets with 2N-component real order parameters is studied within the renormalization-group (RG) approach. The RG functions are calculated in the three-loop order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. I. Sokolov , K. B. Varnashev

In this article, global stabilization results for the two dimensional (2D) viscous Burgers' equation, that is, convergence of unsteady solution to its constant steady state solution with any initial data, are established using a nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Sudeep Kundu , Amiya Kumar Pani

We investigate an operator renormalization group method to extract and describe the relevant degrees of freedom in the evolution of partial differential equations. The proposed renormalization group approach is formulated as an analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Degenhard , Javier Rodriguez-Laguna