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A microscopic theory of odd viscosity in two-dimensional electron systems with smooth disorder and spin-orbit interaction is developed. It is shown that spin-orbit scattering in presence of spin polarization induced by magnetic field gives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 D. S. Zohrabyan , M. M. Glazov

We study a new type of 2D active material that exhibits macroscopic phases with two emergent broken symmetries: self-propelled achiral particles that form dense hexatic clusters, which spontaneously rotate. We experimentally realise active…

Active cholesterics are chiral in both their structure, which has continuous screw symmetry, and their active stresses, which include contributions from torque dipoles. Both expressions of chirality give rise to curl forces in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-04 Gareth P. Alexander , S. J. Kole , Ananyo Maitra , Sriram Ramaswamy

We consider free surface dynamics of a two-dimensional incompressible fluid with odd viscosity. The odd viscosity is a peculiar part of the viscosity tensor which does not result in dissipation and is allowed when parity symmetry is broken.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-01 Alexander G. Abanov , Tankut Can , Sriram Ganeshan

A fluid, with broken time-reversal symmetry, would exhibit odd transport coefficients, such as odd viscosity, thermal conductivity and diffusion coefficient, which may fundamentally alter the fluid properties and significantly influence the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-07 Yuxing Jiao , Mingcheng Yang

Crystalline or polycrystalline systems governed by odd elastic responses are known to exhibit complex dynamical behaviors involving self-propelled dynamics of topological defects with spontaneous self-rotation of chiral crystallites.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-06 Zhi-Feng Huang , Michael te Vrugt , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

We study a two-dimensional chiral active crystal composed of underdamped chiral active particles. These particles, characterized by intrinsic handedness and persistence, interact via linear forces derived from harmonic potentials. Chirality…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-25 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Lorenzo Caprini

Odd elasticity describes the unusual elastic response of solids whose stress-strain relationship is not compatible with an elastic potential. Here, we present a study of odd elasticity in a driven granular matter system composed of grains…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-01 Rosalind Huang , Rituparno Mandal , Colin Scheibner , Vincenzo Vitelli

A particle rotor model is developed which couples several valence protons and neutrons to a rigid triaxial rotor core. It is applied to investigating the chirality in odd-$A$ nucleus $^{135}$Nd with $\pi h_{11/2}^2\otimes\nu h^{-1}_{11/2}$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 B. Qi , S. Q. Zhang , J. Meng , S. Y. Wang , S. Frauendorf

At equilibrium, the structure and response of ordered phases are typically determined by the spontaneous breaking of spatial symmetries. Out of equilibrium, spatial order itself can become a dynamically emergent concept. In this article, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-19 Anton Souslov , Andrey Gromov , Vincenzo Vitelli

Stress-strain constitutive relations in solids with an internal angular degree of freedom can be modelled using Cosserat (also called micropolar) elasticity. In this paper, we explore the phenomenology for a natural extension of Cosserat…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-19 Piotr Surówka , Anton Souslov , Frank Jülicher , Debarghya Banerjee

Active crystals are highly ordered structures that emerge from the self-organization of motile objects, and have been widely studied in synthetic and bacterial active matter. Whether collective crystallization phenomena can occur in groups…

We develop a hydrodynamic framework for the interactions and collective dynamics of force dipoles embedded in a compressible fluid membrane supported by a shallow viscous subphase. Starting from the generalized two-dimensional Stokes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-10 Sneha Krishnan , Udaya Maurya , Rickmoy Samanta

The interplay between the chirality of many biological molecules and the energy injected at small length-scales as the result of biological processes is at the base of the life of the cells. With the aim of unveiling the connection between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-18 Livio Nicola Carenza , Giuseppe Gonnella , Davide Marenduzzo , Giuseppe Negro

We demonstrate a general route to making active, odd elastic solids from passive chiral elements that can act as sources of mechanical work by violating static equilibrium without internal sources of energy or momentum. We further…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-13 Mohamed Shaat , Harold S. Park

We investigate density fluctuations in three-dimensional chiral active fluids by using a simple model of helical self-propelled particles. Helical motion is generated by a constant angular velocity (or chiral torque) acting on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-29 Yuta Kuroda , Takeshi Kawasaki , Kunimasa Miyazaki

We study an inertial chiral active fluid, formed by repulsive particles that transfer angular momentum through odd interactions, i.e. transverse forces. Chirality induces an inhomogeneous phase, consisting of rotating bubbles, whose…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-06 Alessandro Petrini , Raphaël Maire , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Lorenzo Caprini

When time reversal is broken the viscosity tensor can have a non vanishing odd part. In two dimensions, and only then, such odd viscosity is compatible with isotropy. Elementary and basic features of odd viscosity are examined by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. E. Avron

We analyze the hydrodynamics of a rotating disk in a two-dimensional compressible fluid layer with odd viscosity. Unlike conventional fluids, odd viscosity introduces a radial flow component that can be directed either inward or outward,…

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

We perform experiments on an active chiral fluid system of self-spinning rotors in confining boundary. Along the boundary, actively rotating rotors collectively drives a unidirectional material flow. We systematically vary rotor density and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-19 Xiang Yang , Chenyang Ren , Kangjun Cheng , H. P. Zhang