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The overdamped dynamics of a particle is in general affected by its interaction with the surrounding medium, especially out of equilibrium, and when the latter develops spatial and temporal correlations. Here we consider the case in which…

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Little is known about the coupling of rotation and translation in dense systems. Here, we report results of confocal fluorescence microscopy where simultaneous recording of translational and rotational particle trajectories from a…

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Isolated microscopic magnetic particles are used to induce local perturbations in dense colloidal suspensions by rotating an external magnet. Confocal microscopy enables tracking of both the magnetic probe particle and adjacent colloidal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-07 Piotr Habdas , Rachel E. Courtland , Eric R. Weeks

Hydrodynamic interactions between two identical elastic dumbbells settling under gravity in a viscous fluid at low-Reynolds-number are investigated within the point-particle model. Evolution of a benchmark initial configuration is studied,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-23 Marek Bukowicki , Marta Gruca , Maria L. Ekiel-Jezewska

Most analyses of inertial particle motion in vortical flows rely on the point-particle approximation, in which the fluid velocity is assumed to be linear at the scale of the particle, and for heavy particles inertia typically leads to…

Geometric confinement strongly influences the behavior of microparticles in liquid environments. However, to date, nonspherical particle behaviors close to confining boundaries, even as simple as planar walls, remain largely unexplored.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-23 Ruben W. Verweij , Stefania Ketzetzi , Joost de Graaf , Daniela J. Kraft

When glassy materials are rapidly quenched from the liquid to the solid state upon flow cessation or cooling, they solidify in an out-of-equilibrium configuration, retaining the memory of the processing conditions for very long times. This…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-17 Paolo Edera , Minaspi Bantawa , Stefano Aime , Roger T Bonnecaze , Michel Cloitre

We investigate the dynamics of a phase-separating binary fluid, containing colloidal dumbbells anchored to the fluid-fluid interface. Extensive Lattice Boltzmann-Immersed Boundary method simulations reveal that the presence of soft…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-20 A. Tiribocchi , F. Bonaccorso , M. Lauricella , S. Melchionna , A. Montessori , S. Succi

We study the stochastic dynamics of a Brownian particle after it is suddenly released from a harmonic trap moving with constant velocity through a fluctuating correlated medium, described by a scalar Gaussian field with relaxational…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-20 Marcin Piotr Pruszczyk , Davide Venturelli , Andrea Gambassi

A dilute suspension of active Brownian particles in a dense compressible viscoelastic fluid, forms a natural setting to study the emergence of nonreciprocity during a dynamical phase transition. At these densities, the transport of active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-14 Jyoti Prasad Banerjee , Rituparno Mandal , Deb Sankar Banerjee , Shashi Thutupalli , Madan Rao

We employ computer simulations to unveil the translational and rotational dynamics of the self-driven chemically symmetric and asymmetric rigid dumbbells in two-dimensional polymer gel. Our results show that activity or the self-propulsion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-21 Praveen Kumar , Ligesh Theeyancheri , Rajarshi Chakrabarti

Within the mode-coupling theory (MCT) for the evolution of structural relaxation in glass-forming liquids, correlation functions and susceptibility spectra are calculated characterizing the rotational dynamics of a top-down symmetric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 W. Gotze , A. P. Singh , Th. Voigtmann

We study the relaxation of a single colloidal sphere which is periodically driven between two nonequilibrium steady states. Experimentally, this is achieved by driving the particle along a toroidal trap imposed by scanned optical tweezers.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Valentin Blickle , Jakob Mehl , Clemens Bechinger

We study the dynamical properties of a two-dimensional ensemble of self-propelled dumbbells with only repulsive interactions. After summarizing the behavior of the translational and rotational mean-square displacements in the homogeneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Giuseppe Gonnella , Antonio Suma

Microscopic particles suspended in liquids are the prime example of an overdamped system because viscous forces dominate over inertial effects. Apart from their use as model systems, they receive considerable attention as sensitive probes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-10 Johannes Berner , Boris Müller , Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Matthias Krüger , Clemens Bechinger

We examine the behavior of a colloidal particle immersed in a viscoelastic bath undergoing stochastic resetting at a rate $r$. Microscopic probes suspended in viscoelastic environment do not follow the classical theory of Brownian motion.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-13 Arup Biswas , Johan L. A. Dubbeldam , Trifce Sandev , Arnab Pal

We measure the dynamical behavior of colloidal singlets and dumbbells on an inclined magnetic moir\'e pattern, subject to a precessing external homogeneous magnetic field. At low external field strength single colloidal particles and…

The relaxation dynamics of a model fluid of platelike colloidal particles is investigated by means of a phenomenological dynamic density functional theory. The model fluid approximates the particles within the Zwanzig model of restricted…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-09-14 Markus Bier , Rene van Roij

We study stochastic resetting of a probe particle in a viscoelastic environment where only the probe is reset while the medium retains memory of its past dynamics. Using a minimal model with finite correlation time, we analyze the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-19 Ion Santra , Debankur Das

Placing colloidal particles in predesigned sites represents a major challenge of the current state-of-the-art colloidal science. Nematic liquid crystals with spatially varying director patterns represent a promising approach to achieve a…