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Motility and nonreciprocity are two primary mechanisms for self-organization in active matter. In a recent study [Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 148301 (2023)], we explored their joint influence in a minimal model of two-species quorum-sensing…

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In many far-from-equilibrium biological systems, energy injected by irreversible processes at microscopic scales propagates to larger scales to fulfill important biological functions. But given dissipative dynamics at the microscale, how…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-03 Qiwei Yu , Matthew P. Leighton , Christopher W. Lynn

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

Non-reciprocal interactions between microscopic constituents can profoundly shape the large-scale properties of complex systems. Here, we investigate the effects of non-reciprocity in the context of theoretical ecology by analyzing a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Emmy Blumenthal , Jason W. Rocks , Pankaj Mehta

Two hallmarks of non-equilibrium systems, from active colloids to animal herds, are agents motility and nonreciprocal interactions. Their interplay creates feedback loops leading to complex spatiotemporal dynamics crucial to understand and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-17 David Martin , Daniel Seara , Yael Avni , Michel Fruchart , Vincenzo Vitelli

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

Non-motile active matter exhibits a wide range of non-equilibrium collective phenomena yet examples are crucially lacking in the literature. We present a microscopic model inspired by the bacteria {\it Neisseria Meningitidis} in which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-21 Henry Alston , Andrew O. Parry , Raphaël Voituriez , Thibault Bertrand

Out of equilibrium, the lack of reciprocity is the rule rather than the exception. Non-reciprocal interactions occur, for instance, in networks of neurons, directional growth of interfaces, and synthetic active materials. While wave…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-20 Michel Fruchart , Ryo Hanai , Peter B. Littlewood , Vincenzo Vitelli

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

Nonreciprocal interactions are widely observed in nonequilibrium systems, from biological or sociological dynamics to open quantum systems. Despite the ubiquity of nonreciprocity, its impact on phase transitions is not fully understood. In…

Pair interactions between active particles need not follow Newton's third law. In this work we propose a continuum model of pattern formation due to non-reciprocal interaction between multiple species of scalar active matter. The classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-21 Suropriya Saha , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Ramin Golestanian

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

Nonreciprocal interactions that violate Newton's law 'actio=reactio' are ubiquitous in nature and are currently intensively investigated in active matter, chemical reaction networks, population dynamics, and many other fields. An…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-24 Atul Tanaji Mohite , Heiko Rieger

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics has long been an area of substantial interest to ecologists because most fundamental biological processes, such as protein synthesis and respiration, are inherently energy-consuming. Microbial communities are…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-19 Jacob Cook , Samraat Pawar , Robert G. Endres

We study a minimal model involving two species of particles interacting via quorum-sensing rules. Combining simulations of the microscopic model and linear stability analysis of the associated coarse-grained field theory, we identify a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-13 Yu Duan , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Ramin Golestanian , Benoît Mahault

Optically confined colloidal particles, when placed in close proximity, form a dissipatively coupled system through hydrodynamic interactions. The role of such interactions influencing irreversibility and energy dissipation in…

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

A hallmark of living systems is the ability to employ a common set of versatile building blocks that can self-organize into a multitude of different structures, in a way that can be controlled with minimal cost. This capability can only be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-26 Saeed Osat , Ramin Golestanian

Materials undergoing both phase separation and chemical reactions (defined here as all processes that change particle type or number) form an important class of non-equilibrium systems. Examples range from suspensions of self-propelled…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-21 Yuting I. Li , Michael E. Cates

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
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