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In this paper, we discuss microscopic models for chiral active particles, i.e., rotating active units that exhibit circular or spinning motion. While non-chiral active particles are typically governed by self-propulsion and conservative…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-20 Lorenzo Caprini , Alessandro Petrini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Chiral active fluids are known to have anomalous transport properties such as the so-called odd viscosity. In this paper, we provide a microscopic mechanism for how such anomalous transport coefficients can emerge. We construct an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-22 Zhenghan Liao , Ming Han , Michel Fruchart , Vincenzo Vitelli , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

Parity-odd transport is a central signature of chiral fluids, yet analytical predictions are sparse. Here, we introduce a minimal two-dimensional hard-disk gas in which chirality arises solely from a collision-induced transverse impulse.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-05 Raphael Maire , Alessandro Petrini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Lorenzo Caprini

Rheological properties of chiral active materials have been an important area of research in the recent past, in particular regarding odd terms in their mechanical response. While much progress has been made in the study of odd viscous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-08 Debarghya Banerjee , Peter Sollich

Chiral fluids are defined by broken mirror or time-reversal symmetry, giving rise to tensorial transport coefficients with antisymmetric components. A key example is the odd mobility tensor, which governs the response of a chiral tracer to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-07 Erik Kalz , Shashank Ravichandir , Johannes Birkenmeier , Ralf Metzler , Abhinav Sharma

The success of spectroscopy to characterise equilibrium fluids, for example the heat capacity ratio, suggests a parallel approach for active fluids. Here, we start from a hydrodynamic description of chiral active fluids composed of spinning…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-22 Debarghya Banerjee , Anton Souslov , Vincenzo Vitelli

The Lorentz reciprocal theorem -- that is used to study various transport phenomena in hydrodynamics -- is violated in chiral active fluids that feature odd viscosity with broken time-reversal and parity symmetries. Here we show that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-27 Yuto Hosaka , Ramin Golestanian , Andrej Vilfan

Chiral fluids - such as fluids under rotation or a magnetic field as well as synthetic and biological active fluids - flow in a different way than ordinary ones. Due to symmetries broken at the microscopic level, chiral fluids may have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-04 Tali Khain , Michel Fruchart , Colin Scheibner , Thomas A. Witten , Vincenzo Vitelli

An active chiral rotor is a spherical object that can generate chiral flows in a fluid by rotating about an axis. For example, if the flow around the upper hemisphere of the chiral rotor is in a clockwise direction, then the flow in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-29 R. Maity , Snigdha Thakur , P. S. Burada

We investigate the bulk hydrodynamics of the chiral vortex matter on an arbitrary closed surface, extending the ideas of [20, 41]. Placing this important example of a chiral medium onto a curved geometry reveals the geometric nature of odd…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-01 A. Bogatskiy

Chiral active fluids break both time-reversal and parity symmetry, leading to exotic transport phenomena unobservable in ordinary passive fluids. We develop a generalized Green-Kubo relation for the anomalous lift experienced by a passive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-26 Anthony R. Poggioli , David T. Limmer

Chiral active materials are those that break both time-reversal symmetry and parity microscopically, which results in average rotation of the material's complex molecules around their center-of-mass (CM). These materials are far from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-26 Tomer Markovich , Tom C. Lubensky

Odd viscous liquids are endowed with an intrinsic mechanism that tends to restore a displaced particle back to its original position. Since the odd viscous stress does not dissipate energy, inertial oscillations and inertial-like waves can…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-20 E. Kirkinis , M. Olvera de la Cruz

Chiral active materials display odd dynamical effects in both their elastic and viscous responses. We show that the most symmetric mesophase with two-dimensional odd elasticity in three dimensions is chiral, polar and columnar, with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-03 S. J. Kole , Gareth P. Alexander , Ananyo Maitra , Sriram Ramaswamy

Odd viscosity arises in systems with time reversal symmetry breaking, which creates non-dissipative effects. One method to probe changes in viscosity is to examine the dynamics of a single probe particle driven though a medium, a technique…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

Diffusive transport is characterized by a diffusivity tensor which may, in general, contain both a symmetric and an antisymmetric component. Although the latter is often neglected, we derive Green-Kubo relations showing it to be a general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-08 Cory Hargus , Jeffrey M. Epstein , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

Capillary waves are a classical free-surface phenomenon in fluid mechanics, yet their behavior in chiral fluids remains largely unexplored. We show that odd viscosity breaks the reciprocity of capillary waves. Using linear theory together…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Holly du Plessis , Pedro Cosme , Hugo França , Maziyar Jalaal

Chiral active fluids can exhibit odd viscosity, a property that breaks the time-reversal and parity symmetries. Here, we examine the hydrodynamic flows of a rigid disk moving in a compressible 2D fluid layer with odd viscosity, supported by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-21 Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Andrej Vilfan , Yuto Hosaka

In equilibrium liquid crystals, chirality leads to a variety of spectacular three-dimensional structures, but chiral and achiral phases with the same broken continuous symmetries have identical long-time, large-scale dynamics. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-23 S. J. Kole , Gareth P. Alexander , Sriram Ramaswamy , Ananyo Maitra

Elasticity typically refers to a material's ability to store energy, while viscosity refers to a material's tendency to dissipate it. In this review, we discuss fluids and solids for which this is not the case. These materials display…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-29 Michel Fruchart , Colin Scheibner , Vincenzo Vitelli