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We explore nonreciprocal vibration transmission in a nonlinear periodic waveguide. Nonlinearity and asymmetry, the two necessary requirements for nonreciprocity, are both introduced within the unit cell of the periodic waveguide. We focus…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-20 Ali Kogani , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

We examine a non-reciprocally coupled dynamical model of a mixture of two diffusing species. We demonstrate that nonreciprocity, which is encoded in the model via antagonistic cross diffusivities, provides a generic mechanism for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-21 Zhihong You , Aparna Baskaran , M. Cristina Marchetti

Nonreciprocal active matter systems typically feature an asymmetric role among interacting agents, such as a pursuer-evader relationship. We propose a multi-species nonreciprocal active matter model that is invariant under permutations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Chul-Ung Woo , Heiko Rieger , Jae Dong Noh

We investigate the influence of boundaries and spatial nonreciprocity on nonequilibrium driven-dissipative phase transitions. We focus on a one-dimensional lattice of nonlinear bosons described by a Lindblad master equation, where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Ron Belyansky , Cheyne Weis , Ryo Hanai , Peter B. Littlewood , Aashish A. Clerk

Non-reciprocal interactions between scalar fields that represent the concentrations of two active species are known to break the parity and time-reversal (PT) symmetries of the equilibrium state, as manifested in the emergence of travelling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-01 Suropriya Saha , Ramin Golestanian

Nonreciprocal interactions violating Newton's third law are common in a plethora of nonequilibrium situations ranging from predator-prey systems to the swarming of birds and effective colloidal interactions under flow. While many recent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-07 Zhi-Feng Huang , Michael te Vrugt , Jonas Mayer Martins , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

Non-reciprocal interactions, where the influence of agent $i$ on $j$ differs from that of $j$ on $i$, are fundamental in active and living matter. Yet, most models implement such asymmetry phenomenologically. Here we show that…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-12-23 Jyotiranjan Beuria , Venkatesh H. Chembrolu

In active matter, the lack of momentum conservation makes non-reciprocal interactions the rule rather than the exception. They lead to a rich set of emerging behaviors that are hard to account for and to predict starting from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-06 Alberto Dinelli , Jérémy O'Byrne , Agnese Curatolo , Yongfeng Zhao , Peter Sollich , Julien Tailleur

Nonreciprocity originating from classical interactions among nonlinear scatterers has been attracting increasing attention in the quantum community, offering a promising tool to control excitation transfer for quantum information processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Nikita Nefedkin , Michele Cotrufo , Andrea Alù

Investigating the robustness of non-reciprocity in the presence of competing interactions is central to understanding non-reciprocal quantum matter. In this work, we use reservoir engineering to induce non-reciprocal hopping and pairing in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Pietro Brighi , Andreas Nunnenkamp

The shape of a cell influences and it is influenced by interactions with its neighbouring partners. Here, we introduce a coarse-grained model of non-reciprocal interactions between single-cell organisms to study emergent morphologies during…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-17 Maitane Muñoz-Basagoiti , Michael Wassermair , Miguel Amaral , Buzz Baum , Anđela Šarić

Non-reciprocal systems can be thought of as disobeying Newtons third law - an action does not cause an equal and opposite reaction. In recent years there has been a dramatic rise in interest towards such systems. On a fundamental level,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-06 Sergei Shmakov , Glasha Osipycheva , Peter B. Littlewood

Reciprocity is a fundamental principle governing various physical systems, which ensures that the transfer function between any two points in space is identical, regardless of geometrical or material asymmetries. Breaking this transmission…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Corentin Coulais , Dimitrios Sounas , Andrea Alù

Nonreciprocity, a hallmark of nonequilibrium systems, can generate dynamics not possible near thermodynamic equilibrium, including oscillatory and rotating patterns. The onset of temporal oscillations is often evident in linearized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-21 Daniel Evans , Yizhi Shen , Ahmad K. Omar

Interactions between active particles may be non-reciprocal, breaking action-reaction symmetry and leading to novel physics not observed in equilibrium systems. The non-reciprocalCahn-Hilliard (NRCH) model is a phenomenological model that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-25 Martin Kjøllesdal Johnsrud , Ramin Golestanian

All the fundamental interactions (such as gravity or electromagnetic interactions) are reciprocal in nature. However, in the macroscopic world, in particular outside equilibrium, non-reciprocal or non-mutual interactions are quite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-26 Shaon Mandal Chakraborty , Bibhut Sahoo , Peter Sollich , Rituparno Mandal

Recently, non-reciprocal systems have become a focus of growing interest. Examples occur in soft and active matter, but also in engineered quantum materials and neural (brain) networks. Here, we investigate the impact of non-reciprocity on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-10 Kim L. Kreienkamp , Sabine H. L. Klapp

Materials and devices subject to spatiotemporal modulation of their effective properties have a demonstrated ability to support nonreciprocal transmission of waves. Most notably, spatiotemporally modulated systems can restrict wave…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Jiuda Wu , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

The theory of continuous phase transitions predicts the universal collective properties of a physical system near a critical point, which for instance manifest in characteristic power-law behaviours of physical observables. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-24 Matteo Marcuzzi , Emanuele Levi , Weibin Li , Juan P. Garrahan , Beatriz Olmos , Igor Lesanovsky

A wide range of non-equilibrium phenomena in nature involve non-reciprocal interactions. To understand the novel behaviors that can emerge in such systems, finding tractable models is essential. With this goal, we introduce a non-reciprocal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-04 Gabriel Weiderpass , Mayur Sharma , Savdeep Sethi