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Active fluids, which are driven at the microscale by non-conservative forces, are known to exhibit novel transport phenomena due to the breaking of time reversal symmetry. Recently, Epstein and Mandadapu [arXiv:1907.10041] obtained…

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

The electrophoresis of charged colloidal particles in fluids exhibiting odd viscosity represents a fundamental challenge in understanding transport phenomena within charge-stabilized chiral active suspensions. Here, we provide the first…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-10 Reinier van Buel , Bogdan Cichocki , Jeffrey C. Everts

Chiral fluids, for which the mobility tensor has antisymmetric, off-diagonal components, exhibit transport phenomena absent in conventional systems, including interaction-enhanced diffusion and negative mobility. While these effects have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-23 Filippo Faedi , Erik Kalz , Ralf Metzler , Abhinav Sharma

We utilize the chiral kinetic theory in a relaxation-time approximation to investigate the nonlinear anomalous responses of chiral fluids with viscous effects. Unlike the cases in equilibrium, it is found that the chiral magnetic effect and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Yoshimasa Hidaka , Di-Lun Yang

There is currently a strong interest in the collective behavior of chiral active particles that can propel and rotate themselves. In the presence of alignment interactions for many chiral particles, chiral self-propulsion can induce vortex…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-01 Lorenzo Caprini , Benno Liebchen , Hartmut Löwen

In simple fluids, such as water, invariance under parity and time-reversal symmetry imposes that the rotation of constituent 'atoms' are determined by the flow and that viscous stresses damp motion. Activation of the rotational degrees of…

When the time-reversal and parity symmetries in a fluid are broken, transverse transport coefficients can arise in response to perturbations, an example being odd viscosity. We refer to these systems as odd fluids. While much progress has…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-19 Ege Eren , Michel Fruchart , Vincenzo Vitelli

Non-reciprocal interactions fueled by local energy consumption can be found in biological and synthetic active matter at scales where viscoelastic forces are important. Such systems can be described by "odd" viscoelasticity, which assumes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-31 Carlos Floyd , Aaron R. Dinner , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

Understanding interactions between chiral active particles -- self-propelling and self-rotating entities -- is crucial for uncovering how chiral active matter self-organizes into dynamic structures. Although fluctuation-induced forces in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-25 Hashem Fatemi , Hamidreza Khalilian , Jalal Sarabadani , M. Reza Shaebani

Many biological systems, such as bacterial suspensions and actomyosin networks, form polar liquid crystals. These systems are `active' or far-from-equilibrium, due to local forcing of the solvent by the constituent particles. In many cases…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-02 Tomer Markovich , Elsen Tjhung , Michael E. Cates

Chiral active matter comprises particles which can self-propel and self-rotate. Examples range from sperm cells and bacteria near walls to asymmetric colloids and pea-shaped Quincke rollers. In this perspective article we focus on recent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-12 Benno Liebchen , Demian Levis

Intermittency refers to the broken self-similarity of turbulent flows caused by anomalous spatio-temporal fluctuations. In this Letter, we ask how intermittency is affected by a non-dissipative viscosity, known as odd viscosity (also Hall…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-08 Sihan Chen , Xander M. de Wit , Michel Fruchart , Federico Toschi , Vincenzo Vitelli

Several types of active agents self-propel by spinning around their propulsion axis, thus behaving as active screws. Examples include cytoskeletal filaments in gliding assays, magnetically-driven colloidal helices, and microorganisms like…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-03 Debarghya Banerjee , Lauritz Hahn , Ricard Alert

The flow of momentum and energy in a fluid is typically associated with dissipative transport coefficients: viscosity and thermal conductivity. Fluids that break certain symmetries such as mirror symmetry and time-reversal invariance can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-07 Michel Fruchart , Ming Han , Colin Scheibner , Vincenzo Vitelli

Chirality is a recurrent theme in the study of biological systems, in which active processes are driven by the internal conversion of chemical energy into work. Bacterial flagella, acto-myosin filaments and microtubule bundles are active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-01 Livio Nicola Carenza , Giuseppe Gonnella , Davide Marenduzzo , Giuseppe Negro

The interaction of a suspension of rotating colloids with a periodically patterned structure is here investigated by means of continuum theoretical predictions and hydrodynamic simulations. Close to the obstacle surface, rotors circulate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-22 Joscha Mecke , Yongxiang Gao , Marisol Ripoll

Chirality, or the breaking of mirror symmetry, appears across all scales in nature, from molecular conformations to the dynamics of bacterial collectives. Environments composed of such symmetry-breaking constituents can give rise to…

Active hydrodynamic theories are a powerful tool to study the emergent ordered phases of internally driven particles such as bird flocks, bacterial suspension and their artificial analogues. While theories of orientationally ordered phases…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-06 Ananyo Maitra , Martin Lenz

Active fluids are a class of non-equilibrium systems where energy is injected into the system continuously by the constituent particles themselves. Many examples, such as bacterial suspensions and actomyosin networks, are intrinsically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-26 Elsen Tjhung , Michael E. Cates , Davide Marenduzzo

We study in this work the 2D dynamics of an experimental system of disk-shaped rotors, fluidized by turbulent upflow. Contrary to previous knowledge, our experiments show the same particle chiral geometry can produce flows with different…