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Chiral active matter widely exists in nature and emerges rich dynamical behaviors. Among these, chiral active particles (CAPs) with alignment effects show novel collective motions such as orderly rotating droplets and distinct phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-25 Dongrun Jian , Jie Su , Jun Wang , Jin Wang

Crystalline or polycrystalline systems governed by odd elastic responses are known to exhibit complex dynamical behaviors involving self-propelled dynamics of topological defects with spontaneous self-rotation of chiral crystallites.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-06 Zhi-Feng Huang , Michael te Vrugt , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

We investigate the dynamics of passive particles immersed in a bath of chiral active particles, focusing on the emergence of collective rotational motion. Using numerical simulations, we show that passive particles aggregate into clusters…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-14 Divya Kushwaha , Abhra Puitandy , Shradha Mishra

We introduce for the first time a general model of biased-active particles, where the direction of the active force has a biased angle from the principle orientation of the anisotropic interaction between particles. We find that a highly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-07 Yongliang Gou , Huijun Jiang , Zhoughuai Hou

Non-reciprocal systems exhibit diverse dynamical phases whose character depends on the type and degree of non-reciprocity. In this study, we theoretically investigate dynamical structures in a mixture of non-reciprocally aligning polar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-20 Kim L. Kreienkamp , Sabine H. L. Klapp

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

We review theoretical models of individual motility as well as collective dynamics and pattern formation of active particles. We focus on simple models of active dynamics with a particular emphasis on nonlinear and stochastic dynamics of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Pawel Romanczuk , Markus Bär , Werner Ebeling , Benjamin Lindner , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

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

Swimmers and self-propelled particles are physical models for the collective behaviour and motility of a wide variety of living systems, such as bacteria colonies, bird flocks and fish schools. Such artificial active materials are amenable…

We examine a two-dimensional system of sterically repulsive interacting disks where each particle runs in a random direction. This system is equivalent to a run-and-tumble dynamics system in the limit where the run time is infinite. At low…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-06 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Despite the diversity of materials designated as active matter, virtually all active systems undergo a form of dynamic arrest when crowding and activity compete, reminiscent of the dynamic arrest observed in colloidal and molecular fluids…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-28 Ludovic Berthier , Elijah Flenner , Grzegorz Szamel

Dynamics of systems of structured particles consisting of potentially interacting material points is considered in the framework of classical mechanics. Equations of interaction and motion of structured particles have been derived. The…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 V. M. Somsikov

In equilibrium liquid crystals, chirality leads to a variety of spectacular three-dimensional structures, but chiral and achiral phases with the same broken continuous symmetries have identical long-time, large-scale dynamics. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-23 S. J. Kole , Gareth P. Alexander , Sriram Ramaswamy , Ananyo Maitra

A mixture of spinning particles of two different types represents a system where both nonreciprocity and chirality determine the emergent dynamics. In this work we present a minimal model for a two-species mixture of chiral active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-27 Giulia Pisegna , Suropriya Saha

We experimentally study the crystallization of a monolayer of vibrated discs with a built-in polar asymmetry, a model system of active liquids, and contrast it with that of vibrated isotropic discs. Increasing the packing fraction $\phi$,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-05 G. Briand , O. Dauchot

Chemically active colloids or enzymes cluster into dense droplets driven by their phoretic response to collectively generated chemical gradients. Employing Brownian dynamics simulation techniques, our study of the dynamics of such a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-29 K. R. Prathyusha , Suropriya Saha , Ramin Golestanian

Active particles break out of thermodynamic equilibrium thanks to their directed motion, which leads to complex and interesting behaviors in the presence of confining potentials. When dealing with active nanoparticles, however, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-29 Falko Schmidt , Hana Šípovà-Jungová , Mikael Käll , Alois Würger , Giovanni Volpe

Active matter systems - such as a collection of active colloidal particles - operate far from equilibrium with complex inter-particle interactions that govern their collective dynamics. Predicting the collective dynamics of such systems may…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-06 Arvin Gopal Subramaniam , Manoj Kumar , Shashi Thutupalli , Rajesh Singh

Dynamical clustering represents a characteristic feature of active matter consisting of self-propelled agents that convert energy from the environment into mechanical motion. At the micron scale, typical of overdamped dynamics, particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-04 Lorenzo Caprini , Davide Breoni , Anton Ldov , Christian Scholz , Hartmut Löwen

We study the spatio-temporal dynamics of a model of polar active fluid in two dimensions. The system exhibits a transition from an isotropic to a polarized state as a function of density. The uniform polarized state is, however, unstable…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-12-08 Luca Giomi , M. Cristina Marchetti