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The assembly of filamentous bundles with controlled diameters is common in biological systems and desirable for the development of nanomaterials. We discuss dynamical simulations and free energy calculations on patchy spheres with chiral…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 Yasheng Yang , Robert B. Meyer , Michael F. Hagan

Fluids composed of chiral active components can exhibit odd viscosity, a property that breaks time-reversal and parity symmetries. We investigate the hydrodynamic response to monopole and dipole singularities in a compressible thin fluid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-19 Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Yuto Hosaka , Shigeyuki Komura

Active turbulence, or chaotic self-organized collective motion, is often observed in concentrated suspensions of motile bacteria and other systems of self-propelled interacting agents. To date, there is no fundamental understanding of how…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-09 Daiki Nishiguchi , Sora Shiratani , Kazumasa A. Takeuchi , Igor S. Aranson

The lack of detailed balance in active colloidal suspensions allows dissipation to determine stationary states. Here we show that slow viscous flow produced by polar or apolar active colloids near plane walls mediates attractive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-24 Rajesh Singh , R. Adhikari

We present the theoretical prediction of spontaneous rotating vortex rings in a parametrically driven quantum fluid of polaritons -- coherent superpositions of coupled quantum well excitons and microcavity photons. These rings arise not…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-06-29 J. O. Hamp , A. K. Balin , F. M. Marchetti , D. Sanvitto , M. H. Szymanska

Chiral active matter is enjoying a rapid increase of interest, spurred by the rich variety of asymmetries that can be attained in e.g. the shape or self-propulsion mechanism of active particles. Though this has already led to the observance…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-15 Vincent E. Debets , Hartmut Löwen , Liesbeth M. C. Janssen

Many-body interactions in systems of active matter can cause particles to move collectively and self-organize into dynamic structures with long-range order. In cells, the self-assembly of cytoskeletal filaments is critical for cellular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-26 Jeffrey M. Moore , Matthew A. Glaser , Meredith D. Betterton

We consider a confined sheared active polar liquid crystal with a uniform orientation and study the effect of variations in the magnitude of polarization. Restricting our analysis to one-dimensional geometries, we demonstrate that with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-13 Aurore Loisy , Anthony P. Thompson , Jens Eggers , Tanniemola B. Liverpool

Using both dynamical density functional theory and particle-resolved Brownian dynamics simulations, we explore the flow of two-dimensional colloidal solids and fluids driven through a linear channel with a geometric constriction. The flow…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-25 Urs Zimmermann , Frank Smallenburg , 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 report on the emergence of spontaneously rotating clusters in active emulsions. Ensembles of self-propelling droplets sediment and then self-organise into planar, hexagonally ordered clusters which hover over the container bottom while…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-25 Babak Vajdi Hokmabad , Akinori Nishide , Prashanth Ramesh , Corinna C. Maass

In this paper, we formulated the non-steady flow due to the uniformly accelerated and rotating circular cylinder from rest in a stationary, viscous, incompressible and micropolar fluid. This flow problem is examined numerically by adopting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-25 Abuzar Abid Siddiqui

Dipoles in triangular optical ladders constitute a flexible platform for the study of the interplay between geometric frustration and long-range anisotropic interactions, and in particular for the observation of the spontaneous onset of…

A Quincke roller is a unique active particle that can run and tumble freely on a flat plate due to the torque generated by a uniform DC electric field applied perpendicular to the plate. A system involving many such particles exhibits a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-06 Shun Imamura , Kohei Sawaki , John J. Molina , Matthew S. Turner , Ryoichi Yamamoto

We study a novel phase of active polar fluids, which is characterized by the continuous creation and destruction of dense clusters due to self-sustained turbulence. This state arises due to the interplay of the self-advection of the aligned…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-12 Vasco M. Worlitzer , Gil Ariel , Avraham Be'er , Holger Stark , Markus Bär , Sebastian Heidenreich

In this work, we study the stationary behavior of an assembly of independent chiral active particles under confinement by employing an extension of the active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model. The chirality modeled by means of an effective torque…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-14 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

We study the dynamics of an active gel droplet with imposed orientational anchoring (normal or planar) at its surface. We find that if the activity is large enough droplets subject to strong anchoring spontaneously start to rotate, with the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-09 Ana R. Fialho , Matthew L. Blow , Davide Marenduzzo

We study the quantum hydrodynamical features of exciton-polaritons flowing circularly in a ring-shaped geometry. We consider a resonant-excitation scheme in which the spinor polariton fluid is set into motion in both components by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-09-07 A. Gallemí , M. Guilleumas , M. Richard , A. Minguzzi

Active emulsions and liquid crystalline shells are intriguing and experimentally realisable types of topological matter. Here we numerically study the morphology and spatiotemporal dynamics of a double emulsion, where one or two passive…

From the formation of animal flocks to the emergence of coordinate motion in bacterial swarms, at all scales populations of motile organisms display coherent collective motion. This consistent behavior strongly contrasts with the difference…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-11 Antoine Bricard , Jean-Baptiste Caussin , Nicolas Desreumaux , Olivier Dauchot , Denis Bartolo