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Living materials such as membranes, cytoskeletal assemblies, cell collectives and tissues can often be described as active solids -- materials that are energized from within, with elastic response about a well defined reference…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-15 Yuan Zhou , Lazaros Tsaloukidis , Jack Binysh , Yuchao Chen , Nikta Fakhri , Corentin Coulais , Piotr Surówka

We consider rotating superfluid pionic liquid, with superfluidity being induced by isospin chemical potential. The rotation is known to result in a chiral current flowing along the axis of the rotation. We argue that in case of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 V. P. Kirilin , A. V. Sadofyev , V. I. Zakharov

We study the velocity autocorrelations in an experimental configuration of confined two-dimensional active rotors (disks). We report persistent small scale oscillations in both rotational and translational velocity autocorrelations, with…

Colloidal membranes, self assembled monolayers of aligned rod like molecules, offer a template for designing membranes with definite shapes and curvature, and possibly new functionalities in the future. Often the constituent rods, due to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-31 Sk Ashif Akram , Arabinda Behera , Prerna Sharma , Anirban Sain

We report the selective stabilization of chiral rotational direction of bacterial vortices, from turbulent bacterial suspension, in achiral circular microwells sealed by an oil-water interface. This broken-symmetry, originating from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-29 Kazusa Beppu , Ziane Izri , Tasuku Sato , Yoko Yamanishi , Yutaka Sumino , Yusuke T. Maeda

The diffusion of micro- and nanoswimmers in a fluid, confined within irregular structures that impose entropic barriers, is often modeled using overdamped active Brownian dynamics, where viscous effects are paramount and inertia is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-03 Narender Khatri , Vikas Sharma , Anton F. Burnet , Suneet Kumar Awasthi

When submerged in a chiral active bath, a passive object becomes a spinning ratchet imbued with odd transport properties. We present the most general Langevin dynamics for a rigid body in a chiral active bath, in the adiabatic limit of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-02 Cory Hargus , Federico Ghimenti , Julien Tailleur , Frédéric van Wijland

We consider an isotropic compressible non-dissipative fluid with broken parity subject to free surface boundary conditions in two spatial dimensions. The hydrodynamic equations describing the bulk dynamics of the fluid as well as the free…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-28 Alexander G. Abanov , Tankut Can , Sriram Ganeshan , Gustavo M. Monteiro

During division in animal cells, the actomyosin cortex has been found to exhibit counter-rotating cortical flows, also known as chiral flows, along the axis of division. Furthermore, such chiral surface flows were shown to influence…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Eloy Merlijn de Kinkelder , Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich , Sebastian Aland

Lipid rafts are hypothesized to facilitate protein interaction, tension regulation, and trafficking in biological membranes, but the mechanisms responsible for their formation and maintenance are not clear. Insights into many other…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-12 Louis Kang , T. C. Lubensky

Rotation of a container holding a viscous fluid forms a vortex which grows with increasing angular velocity. A superfluid, however, is intrinsically different from these normal fluids because its rotation is quantized. Even if a container…

The formation of patterns and exotic nonequilibrium steady states in active-fluid systems continues to pose challenging problems -- theoretical, numerical, and experimental -- for statistical physicists and fluid dynamicists. We combine…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-12 Biswajit Maji , Nadia Bihari Padhan , Rahul Pandit

This brief review recalls some chapters in theory of sliding incommensurate density waves which may have appeared after inspirations from studies of I.E Dzyaloshinskii and collaborations with him. First we address the spin density waves…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-16 Serguei Brazovskii , Natasha Kirova

The effects of finite magnetization and electric polarization on dissipative and non-dissipative (anomalous) transport coefficients of a chiral fluid are studied. First, using the second law of thermodynamics as well as Onsager's time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-28 N. Sadooghi , S. M. A. Tabatabaee

Active colloids, also known as artificial microswimmers, are self-propelled micro and nanoparticles that convert uniform sources of fuel (e.g. chemical) or uniform external driving fields (e.g. magnetic or electric) into directed motion by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-30 Songbo Ni , Emanuele Marini , Ivo Buttinoni , Heiko Wolf , Lucio Isa

It is well known that the difference between the chemical potentials of left-handed and right-handed particles in a parity violating (chiral) plasma can lead to an instability. We show that the chiral instability may drive turbulent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-18 Avdhesh Kumar , Jitesh R. Bhatt , Amita Das , P. K. Kaw

Directed motion up a concentration gradient is crucial for the survival and maintenance of numerous biological systems, such as sperms moving towards an egg during fertilization or ciliates moving towards a food source. In these systems,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-01 Bhavesh Valecha , Hossein Vahid , Pietro Luigi Muzzeddu , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Abhinav Sharma

Odd viscoelasticity arises in parity-violating nonequilibrium materials, where it leads to unconventional mechanical responses and oscillatory relaxation even in overdamped systems. While many living and active chiral materials present…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-26 Julius Kiln , Alexander Mietke

Nonreciprocal interactions in active matter are known to generate exotic mechanical behaviors such as odd elasticity and odd viscosity. However, these phenomena have largely been studied in isolation, raising a fundamental question: Is…

Various active materials exhibit strong spatio-temporal variability of their orientational order known as active turbulence, characterised by irregular and chaotic motion of topological defects, including colloidal suspensions,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-29 Nika Kralj , Miha Ravnik , Žiga Kos