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Nonreciprocal interactions, in which action-reaction symmetry is broken, provide a powerful route to collective dynamics that cannot be captured by equilibrium free-energy minimisation. Here, we introduce and analyse a two-species…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-11 Arjun R , Pratyush Prakash Patra , A. V. Anil Kumar

A nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard model with a nonsmooth potential of double-well obstacle type that promotes sharp interfaces in the solution is presented. To capture long-range interactions between particles, a nonlocal Ginzburg-Landau energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Olena Burkovska , Max Gunzburger

Complex systems out of equilibrium often experience intermittent oscillations between quiescent and highly dynamic states. The type of intermittency depends on how energy is pumped into the system, and how it is dissipated. While…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-23 Zhicheng Shu , Wei-Chih Li , Wentao Yu , Justin C. Burton

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

Emergent non-reciprocal interactions violating Newton's third law are widespread in out-of-equilibrium systems. Phase separating mixtures with such interactions exhibit travelling states with no equilibrium counterpart. Using extensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-10 Rituparno Mandal , Santiago Salazar Jaramillo , Peter Sollich

Random non-reciprocal interactions between a large number of conserved densities are shown to enhance the stability of the system towards pattern formation. The enhanced stability is an exact result when the number of species approaches…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-08 Laya Parkavousi , Navdeep Rana , Ramin Golestanian , Suropriya Saha

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

We study a non-reciprocal version of Model B, as the continuum theory for non-reciprocal particle mixtures. In contrast to non-reciprocal Cahn-Hilliard models, it is important in this context to consider the dependence of mobility…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-06 Bibhut Sahoo , Rituparno Mandal , Peter Sollich

Nonreciprocal effective interaction forces can occur between mesoscopic particles in colloidal suspensions that are driven out of equilibrium. These forces violate Newton's third law actio=reactio on coarse-grained length and time scales.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-20 Jörg Bartnick , Marco Heinen , Alexei V Ivlev , Hartmut Löwen

We consider the effect of non-reciprocity in a binary mixture of self-propelled particles with anti-aligning interactions, where a particle of type A reacts differently to a particle of type B than vice versa. Starting from a well-known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-03 Jakob Mihatsch , Thomas Ihle

In this paper, we discuss microscopic models for chiral active particles, i.e., rotating active units that exhibit circular or spinning motion. While non-chiral active particles are typically governed by self-propulsion and conservative…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-20 Lorenzo Caprini , Alessandro Petrini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

We extend the Gutzwiller trace formula to systems of noninteracting identical particles. The standard relation for isolated orbits does not apply since the energy of each particle is separately conserved causing the periodic orbits to occur…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-02-06 Jamal Sakhr , Niall D. Whelan

For nonlinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws in one space variable, we establish the existence of nonclassical entropy solutions exhibiting nonlinear interactions between shock waves with strong strength. The proposed theory is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Eva Kardhashi , Marc Laforest , Philippe G. LeFloch

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

Pattern formation in active biological matter typically arises from the feedback between chemical concentration fields and mechanical stresses. The actomyosin cortex of cells is an archetypal example of an active thin film that displays…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Jason R. Picardo , V. Jemseena , K. Vijay Kumar

An acoustic standing wave acts as a lattice of evenly spaced potential energy wells for sub-wavelength-scale objects. Trapped particles interact with each other by exchanging waves that they scatter from the standing wave. Unless the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-10 Mia C. Morrell , Leela Elliott , David G. Grier

A basic statistical mechanics analysis of many-body systems with non-reciprocal pair interactions is presented. Different non-reciprocity classes in two- and three-dimensional binary systems (relevant to real experimental situations) are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-09 A. V. Ivlev , J. Bartnick , M. Heinen , H. Löwen

We numerically investigate the phase separation dynamics of the non-reciprocal Allen-Cahn model in which two non-conserved order parameters are coupled. The system exhibits several dynamical patterns such as the randomly oscillating phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-04 Maoji Liu , Zhanglin Hou , Hiroyuki Kitahata , Linli He , Shigeyuki Komura

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

We present an overdamped continuum description of oriented active solids in which interactions respect the symmetries of space but do not obey the principle of action and reaction. Taking position and orientation as kinematic variables, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-16 Balázs Németh , Takuya Kobayashi , Ronojoy Adhikari