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Asymmetrically charged, nonspherical colloidal particles in general perform complex rotations and oblique motions under an electric field. The interplay of electrostatic and hydrodynamic forces complicate the prediction of these motions. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-01 Lara Braverman , Aaron Mowitz , Thomas A. Witten

Active matter describes materials whose constituents are driven out of equilibrium by continuous energy consumption, for instance from ATP. Due to the orientable character of the constituents, active suspensions can attain liquid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-03 L. N. Carenza , G. Gonnella , G. Negro

How physical systems approach hydrodynamic behavior is governed by the decay of nonhydrodynamic modes. Here, we start from a relativistic kinetic theory that encodes relaxation mechanisms governed by different timescales thus sharing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-13 Aleksi Kurkela , Urs Achim Wiedemann

Polymeric particles are strong candidates for designing artificial materials capable of emulating the complex twisting-based functionality observed in biological systems. In this letter, we provide the first detailed investigation of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-16 H. S. Ansell , D. S. Kim , R. D. Kamien , E. Katifori , T. Lopez-Leon

Inspired by the recent realization of a 2D chiral fluid as an active monolayer droplet moving atop a 3D Stokesian fluid, we formulate mathematically its free-boundary dynamics. The surface droplet is described as a general 2D linear,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-16 Leroy L. Jia , William T. M. Irvine , Michael J. Shelley

The surface of a polar liquid presents a special environment for the solvation and organization of charged solutes, which differ from bulk behaviors in important ways. These differences have motivated many attempts to understand…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-07 Stephen J. Cox , Phillip L. Geissler

Meso-scale turbulence was originally observed experimentally in various suspensions of swimming bacteria, as well as in the collective motion of active colloids. The corresponding large-scale dynamical patterns were reproduced in a simple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-30 Vasco M. Worlitzer , Gil Ariel , Avraham Be'er , Holger Stark , Markus Bär , Sebastian Heidenreich

We utilize a generalized Irving-Kirkwood procedure to derive the hydrodynamic equations of an active matter suspension with internal structure and driven by internal torque. The internal structure and torque of the active Brownian particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-22 Dibyendu Mandal , Katherine Klymko , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

We study, experimentally, the dynamics of a binary mixture of air-fluidized disks. The disks are chiral since they incorporate a set of blades with constant tilt. Both species are identical except for their blades tilt angle, which is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-05 Miguel Ángel López-Castaño , Álvaro Rodríguez-Rivas , Francisco Vega Reyes

In this work, we start with chiral kinetic theory and construct the spin hydrodynamic framework for a chiral spinor system. Using the 14-moment expansion formalism, we obtain the equations of motion of second-order dissipative relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-26 Shuzhe Shi , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon

Active fluids comprise a variety of systems composed of elements immersed in a fluid environment which can convert some form of energy into directed motion; as such they are intrinsically out-of-equilibrium in the absence of any external…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-26 Andrea Scagliarini , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

We study a crystal composed of active units governed by self-alignment and chirality. The first mechanism acts as an effective torque that aligns the particle orientation with its velocity, while the second drives individual particles along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-14 Marco Musacchio , Alexander P. Antonov , Hartmut Löwen , Lorenzo Caprini

Chiral active liquids exhibit unidirectional edge currents when confined to simple geometries, but the origin of this phenomenon has defied explanation. Starting from the microscopic equations of motion of a simple two-dimensional model, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-20 Faisal Alsallom , David T. Limmer

Active matter refers to a broad class of non-equilibrium systems where energy is continuously injected at the level of individual ``particles". These systems exhibit emergent collective behaviors that have no direct thermal-equilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-10 Zihan Zheng , Cunyuan Jiang , Yangrui Chen , Matteo Baggioli , Jie Zhang

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

The hydrodynamic theory of polar liquid crystals is widely used to describe biological active fluids as well as passive molecular materials. Depending on the `shear-alignment parameter', in passive or weakly active polar fluids under…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-06 Tomer Markovich , Elsen Tjhung , Michael E. Cates

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

Colloidal particles with active boundary layers - regions surrounding the particles where nonequilibrium processes produce large velocity gradients - are common in many physical, chemical and biological contexts. The velocity or stress at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-14 Rajesh Singh , Somdeb Ghose , R. Adhikari

In this letter, we analyze the dipole-dipole correlations obtained from the molecular dynamics simulations for strongly- and weakly-polar model liquids. As a result, we found that cross-correlations contribution to the systems total dipole…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-07 Kajetan Koperwas , Marian Paluch

I put forward a continuum theory for active nematic gels, defined as fluids or suspensions of orientable rodlike objects endowed with active dynamics, that is based on symmetry arguments and compatibility with thermodynamics. The starting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-15 Stefano S Turzi