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Nonreciprocal interactions are widely observed in nonequilibrium systems, from biological or sociological dynamics to open quantum systems. Despite the ubiquity of nonreciprocity, its impact on phase transitions is not fully understood. In…

Reciprocity is a fundamental symmetry present in many natural phenomena and engineered systems. Distinct situations where this symmetry is broken are typically grouped under the umbrella term "nonreciprocity", colloquially defined by: the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-12 Michel Fruchart , Vincenzo Vitelli

Non-reciprocal interactions are prevalent in various complex systems leading to phenomena that cannot be described by traditional equilibrium statistical physics. Although non-reciprocally interacting systems composed of two populations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-15 Cheyne Weis , Ryo Hanai

Non-reciprocal systems have been shown to sustain time-dependent patterns, most prominently travelling waves. The transition into these time-dependent states generally breaks time-translational invariance, representing a clear deviation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-13 Emir Sezik , Gunnar Pruessner

Nonreciprocal theories are used to model a broad array of non-equilibrium phenomena found in nature ranging from biological systems like networks of neurons to the behavior of overflowing water fountains. This includes systems broadly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-20 Savdeep Sethi , Gabriel Artur Weiderpass

Nonreciprocity is most commonly associated with a large difference in the transmitted energy when the locations of the source and receiver are interchanged. This energy bias is accompanied by a difference in the transmitted phase. We…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Ali Kogani , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

Nonreciprocity can profoundly alter the spectra and dynamics of open quantum systems, yet its impact on the long-time steady-state phases of matter has remained largely unexplored. Here we show that the interplay of nonreciprocity, symmetry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Ding Gu , Zhanpeng Fu , Zhong Wang

Phase transitions, non-Hermiticity and nonreciprocity play central roles in fundamental physics. However, the triple interplay of these three fields is of lack in the quantum domain. Here, we show nonreciprocal parity-time-symmetric phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Miao Cai , Jiang-Shan Tang , Ming-Yuan Chen , Keyu Xia

A hallmark of living systems is the ability to employ a common set of versatile building blocks that can self-organize into a multitude of different structures, in a way that can be controlled with minimal cost. This capability can only be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-26 Saeed Osat , Ramin Golestanian

Many active matter systems consist of different particle types that interact via nonreciprocal couplings. Such nonreciprocal couplings can lead to the spontaneous emergence of time-dependent states that break parity-time symmetry. On the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-29 Kim L. Kreienkamp , Sabine H. L. Klapp

Systems with nonreciprocal interactions generically display time-dependent states. These are routinely observed in finite systems, from neuroscience to active matter, in which globally ordered oscillations exist. However, the stability of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yael Avni , Michel Fruchart , David Martin , Daniel Seara , Vincenzo Vitelli

Non-reciprocal interactions are a defining feature of many complex systems, biological, ecological, and technological, often pushing them far from equilibrium and enabling rich dynamical responses. These asymmetries can arise at multiple…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Anna Poggialini , Serena Di Santo , Pablo Villegas , Andrea Gabrielli , Miguel A. Muñoz

Non-reciprocal interactions are among the simplest mechanisms that drive a physical system out of thermal equilibrium, leading to novel phenomena such as oscillatory pattern formation. In this paper, we introduce a ternary phase separation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-09 Xiao Ma , Michael E. Cates

Non-reciprocal interactions between microscopic constituents can profoundly shape the large-scale properties of complex systems. Here, we investigate the effects of non-reciprocity in the context of theoretical ecology by analyzing a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Emmy Blumenthal , Jason W. Rocks , Pankaj Mehta

We investigate the physics of an open two-component Dicke model, where the light field mediates non-reciprocal interactions between two spin species. We show that the model, which we dub non-reciprocal Dicke model, exhibits a discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Ezequiel I. Rodríguez Chiacchio , Andreas Nunnenkamp , Matteo Brunelli

Motility and nonreciprocity are two primary mechanisms for self-organization in active matter. In a recent study [Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 148301 (2023)], we explored their joint influence in a minimal model of two-species quorum-sensing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-15 Yu Duan , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Ramin Golestanian , Benoît Mahault

In active fluids and active solids the constituents individually generate movement by each extracting energy from their environment or from their own source. Non-reciprocal interactions among these active constituents then enable novel…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-18 Brady Wu , Qinghao Mao , Bryan VanSaders , Heinrich M. Jaeger

We study a process of pattern formation for a generic model of species anchored to the nodes of a network where local reactions take place, and that experience non-reciprocal long-range interactions, encoded by the network directed links.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Timoteo Carletti , Riccardo Muolo

We propose a theoretical scheme to realize nonreciprocal transition between two energy levels that can not coupled directly. Suppose they are coupled indirectly by two auxiliary levels with a cyclic four-level configuration, and the four…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Xun-Wei Xu , Hai-Quan Shi , Ai-Xi Chen

While non-reciprocal couplings are ubiquitous in classical systems, their impact on quantum many-body criticality and entanglement remains largely unexplored. Using exact numerical simulations, we study an interacting fermionic chain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Rafael D. Soares , Matteo Brunelli , Marco Schirò
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