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Phase separating systems that are maintained away from thermodynamic equilibrium via molecular processes represent a class of active systems, which we call active emulsions. These systems are driven by external energy input for example…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-07 Christoph A. Weber , David Zwicker , Frank Jülicher , Chiu Fan Lee

A set of equations according to which the conducting medium consists of two fluids - laminar and vortex, has been obtained in the present paper by transforming MHD equations. In a similar way, an electronic fluid is assumed to consist of a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 N. B. Volkov , A. M. Iskoldsky

We consider two minimal models of active fluid droplets that exhibit complex dynamics including steady motion, deformation, rotation and oscillating motion. First we consider a droplet with a concentration of active contractile matter…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-20 Carl A. Whitfield , Rhoda J. Hawkins

Vortices and antivortices are typical non uniform magnetization configurations that can be achieved in spin-torque oscillators with in-plane materials. Dynamics of a vortex-antivortex pair, namely vortex dipole, were predicted and already…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-07-04 A. Giordano , V. Puliafito , L. Torres , M. Carpentieri , B. Azzerboni , G. Finocchio

Wakes of upswept afterbodies are often characterized by a counter-rotating streamwise vortex pair. The unsteady dynamics of these vortices are examined with a spatio-temporally resolved Large-Eddy Simulation dataset on a representative…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-01 Rajesh Ranjan , J. -Ch. Robinet , Datta Gaitonde

One of the most distinctive hallmarks of many-body systems far from equilibrium is the spontaneous emergence of order under conditions where disorder would be plausibly expected. Here, we report on the self-transition between ordered and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-03 Andrea Montessori , Marco Lauricella , Adriano Tiribocchi , Fabio Bonaccorso , Sauro Succi

We use molecular dynamics simulations to study the evaporation of particle-laden droplets on a heated surface. The droplets are composed of a Lennard-Jones fluid containing rigid particles which are spherical sections of an atomic lattice,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Weikang Chen , Joel Koplik , Ilona Kretzschmar

Controlling fluidic flows in active droplets is crucial in developing intelligent models to understand and mimic single-celled microorganisms. Typically, these fluidic flows are affected by the interfacial dynamics of chemical agents. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-10 Muhammad Turab Ali Khan , Gaurav Gardi , Ren Hao Soon , Mingchao Zhang , Metin Sitti

We have theoretically investigated the structure of spinning self-bound droplets made of $^{41}$K-$^{87}$Rb Bose mixture by solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation including beyond-mean-field correction in the Lee-Huang-Yang form. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-07-13 Matteo Caldara , Francesco Ancilotto

Inverse nematic emulsions in which surfactant-coated water droplets are dispersed in a nematic host fluid have distinctive properties that set them apart from dispersions of two isotropic fluids or of nematic droplets in an isotropic fluid.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 T. C. Lubensky , David Pettey , Nathan Currier , Holger Stark

Instabilities of fluid-fluid interfaces are ubiquitous in passive soft matter. Adding activity to the interface or either fluid can dramatically change the stability of the interface. Using experiment and theory, we investigate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-04 Bennett C. Sessa , Federico Cao , Robert A. Pelcovits , Thomas R. Powers , Guillaume Duclos

The interplay between the chirality of many biological molecules and the energy injected at small length-scales as the result of biological processes is at the base of the life of the cells. With the aim of unveiling the connection between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-18 Livio Nicola Carenza , Giuseppe Gonnella , Davide Marenduzzo , Giuseppe Negro

A gel consists of a network of particles or molecules formed for example using the sol-gel process, by which a solution transforms into a porous solid. Particles or molecules in a gel are mainly organized on a scaffold that makes up a…

Many biological, culinary, and engineering processes lead to the co-encapsulation of several soft particles within a liquid interface. In these situations the particles are bound together by the capillary forces that deform them and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-01 Shunsuke Saita , Finn Bastian Molzahn , Clara Delahousse , Julien Husson , Charles N. Baroud

The temporal and spatial evolution of dispersed media is a fundamental problem in a wide range of physicochemical systems, such as emulsions, suspensions and aerosols. These systems are multiphasic and involve compounds of different…

Quantized vortices are the hallmark of superfluidity, and are often sought out as the first observable feature in new superfluid systems. Following the recent experimental observation of vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates comprised of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-07 Thomas Bland , Giacomo Lamporesi , Manfred J. Mark , Francesca Ferlaino

In biology, cells undergo deformations under the action of flow caused by the fluid surrounding them. These flows lead to shape changes and instabilities that have been explored in detail for single component vesicles. However, cell…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-15 Anirudh Venkatesh , Vivek Narsimhan

We study the elementary characteristics of turbulence in a quantum ferrofluid through the context of a dipolar Bose gas condensing from a highly non-equilibrium thermal state. Our simulations reveal that the dipolar interactions drive the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-10-31 T. Bland , G. W. Stagg , L. Galantucci , A. W. Baggaley , N. G. Parker

Dynamics of vortex clusters is essential for understanding diverse superfluid phenomena. In this paper, we examine the dynamics of vortex quadrupoles in a trapped two-dimensional (2D) Bose-Einstein condensate. We find that the movement of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-23 Tao Yang , Zhi-Qiang Hu , Shan Zou , Wu-Ming Liu

Phase separation in passive systems leads to uncontrolled droplet growth, limiting structural control in soft materials and cells. We identify a generic mechanism to arrest coarsening based on chemical interconversion between molecular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Florian Raßhofer , Erwin Frey