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Tissue fluidity regulates many critical biological processes, including embryonic development, wound healing, and cancer metastasis. In confluent epithelia, where cell packing fraction is effectively fixed, the prevailing paradigm…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Pradip K. Bera , Anh Q. Nguyen , Molly McCord , Dapeng Bi , Jacob Notbohm

Active systems of self-rotating elements inherently exhibit chirality, making them of fundamental interest due to parity violation. Using large-scale hydrodynamic simulations, we investigate the gelation of adhesive spinners confined to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-30 Yujie Jiang , Haiquan Li , Yiting Liu , Haoran Li , Yang Cui

Autonomous and driven transport in chiral active fluids have been shown to exhibit features that cannot be accommodated within the classical formulation of fluid mechanics, due to the role of odd viscosity. We generalize the theory of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-24 Michalis Chatzittofi , Yuto Hosaka , Andrej Vilfan , Ramin Golestanian

Dynamics and separation of mixed chiral microswimmers are numerically investigated in a channel with regular arrays of rigid half-circle obstacles. For zero shear flow, transport behaviors are the same for different chiral particles: the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-12 Bao-quan Ai , Ya-feng He , Wei-rong Zhong

Epithelial tissues are driven out of thermodynamic equilibrium by internally generated forces, causing complex patterns of motion. Even when both the forces and motion are measurable, it is not yet possible to relate the two, because the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Molly McCord , Jacob Notbohm

The chiral anomaly is based on a non-conserved chiral charge and can happen in Dirac fermion systems under the influence of external electromagnetic fields. In this case, the spectral flow leads to a transfer of right- to left-moving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Christoph Fleckenstein , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Björn Trauzettel

Colloidal shear thickening presents a significant challenge because the macroscopic rheology becomes increasingly controlled by the microscopic details of short ranged particle interactions in the shear thickening regime. Our measurements…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-27 John R. Royer , Daniel L. Blair , Steven D. Hudson

In developing organisms, internal cellular processes generate mechanical stresses at the tissue scale. The resulting deformations depend on the material properties of the tissue, which can exhibit long-ranged orientational order and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-20 Carles Blanch-Mercader , Pau Guillamat , Aurélien Roux , Karsten Kruse

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…

Main characteristics of colloidal systems that develop fluid phases with different mechanical properties, namely shear-banding fluids, are briefly reviewed both from experimental and theoretical (modelling) point of view. A non-monotonic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-05 Daniel Quemada , Claudio Berli

Chiral excitation flows have attracted significant attention due to their unique unidirectionality. Such flows have been studied in three-node networks with synthetic gauge fields (SGFs), but the general theory of chiral flows in multinode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Xian-Liang Lu , Fo-Hong Wang , Jia-Jin Zou , Ze-Liang Xiang

In this work the influence of the chiral anomaly effect on the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence was studied. We argue that in the early universe, before the electroweak symmetry breaking, and for temperatures high enough such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 Petar Pavlović , Natacha Leite , Günter Sigl

Due to their topological charge, or chirality, the Weyl cones present in topological semimetals are considered robust against arbitrary perturbations. One well-understood exception to this robustness is the pairwise creation or annihilation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Viktor Könye , Adrien Bouhon , Ion Cosma Fulga , Robert-Jan Slager , Jeroen van den Brink , Jorge I. Facio

Screw rotations in nonsymmorphic space group symmetries induce the presence of hourglass and accordion shape band structures along screw invariant lines whenever spin-orbit coupling is nonnegligible. These structures induce topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-30 Rafael González-Hernández , Erick Tuiran , Bernardo Uribe

We suggest that electromagnetic chirality, generally displayed by 3D or 2D complex chiral structures, can occur in 1D patterned composites whose components are achiral. This feature is highly unexpected in a 1D system which is geometrically…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-05 Carlo Rizza , Andrea Di Falco , Michael Scalora , Alessandro Ciattoni

Epithelial cell monolayers exhibit traveling mechanical waves. We rationalize this observation thanks to a hydrodynamic description of the monolayer as a compressible, active and polar material. We show that propagating waves of the cell…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-10-01 Shunsuke Yabunaka , Philippe Marcq

The generation of chiral laser emission offers promising opportunities for modern photonic applications and the study of chiral light-mater interactions. Despite the great process made in recent years, the direct generation of chiral lasers…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-19 Hamim Rivy , Yu-Cheng Chen

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

The microscopic understanding on the influence of the pairing correlations or the superfluidity on the nuclear chiral rotation has been a longstanding and challenging problem. Based on the three-dimensional cranking covariant density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Y. P. Wang , J. Meng

Emergence of collective dynamical chirality (CDC) at mesoscopic scales plays a key role in many formation processes of chiral structures in nature, which may also provide possible routines for people to fabricate complex chiral…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-15 Huijun Jiang , Huai Ding , Mingfeng Pu , Zhonghuai Hou