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Emergence of collective dynamical chirality (CDC) at mesoscopic scales plays a key role in many formation processes of chiral structures in nature, which may also provide possible routines for people to fabricate complex chiral…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-15 Huijun Jiang , Huai Ding , Mingfeng Pu , Zhonghuai Hou

Directional locking occurs when a particle moving over a periodic substrate becomes constrained to travel along certain substrate symmetry directions. Such locking effects arise for colloids and superconducting vortices moving over ordered…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Capillary waves are a classical free-surface phenomenon in fluid mechanics, yet their behavior in chiral fluids remains largely unexplored. We show that odd viscosity breaks the reciprocity of capillary waves. Using linear theory together…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Holly du Plessis , Pedro Cosme , Hugo França , Maziyar Jalaal

Active phase separations evade canonical thermodynamic descriptions and have thus challenged our understanding of coexistence and interfacial phenomena. Considerable progress has been made towards a non-equilibrium theoretical description…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-21 Luke Langford , Ahmad K. Omar

Active particles exhibit self-propulsion, leading to transport behavior that differs fundamentally from passive Brownian motion. In confined or structured domains, activity strongly influence escape probabilities and first-passage behavior.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-27 Sarafa A. Iyaniwura , Zhiwei Peng

Autonomous and driven transport in chiral active fluids have been shown to exhibit features that cannot be accommodated within the classical formulation of fluid mechanics, due to the role of odd viscosity. We generalize the theory of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-24 Michalis Chatzittofi , Yuto Hosaka , Andrej Vilfan , Ramin Golestanian

Chiral active matter is predicted to exhibit odd elasticity, with nontraditional elastic response arising from a combination of chirality, being out of equilibrium, and the presence of nonreciprocal interactions. One of the resulting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-10 Sang Hyun Choi , Zhi-Feng Huang , Nigel Goldenfeld

Polar active particles constitute a wide class of synthetic colloids that are able to propel along a preferential direction, given by their polar axis. Here, we demonstrate a generic self-phoretic mechanism that leads to their spontaneous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-27 Marco De Corato , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Giovanniantonio Natale

We consider collective dynamics of self-propelling particles in two dimensions. They can align themselves according to the direction of propulsion of their neighbours, together with a random perturbation (i.e. rotational fluctuation). They…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-01 Shubhashis Rana , Md. Samsuzzaman , Arnab Saha

We study a crystal composed of active units governed by self-alignment and chirality. The first mechanism acts as an effective torque that aligns the particle orientation with its velocity, while the second drives individual particles along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-14 Marco Musacchio , Alexander P. Antonov , Hartmut Löwen , Lorenzo Caprini

We study a two-dimensional chiral active crystal composed of underdamped chiral active particles. These particles, characterized by intrinsic handedness and persistence, interact via linear forces derived from harmonic potentials. Chirality…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-25 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Lorenzo Caprini

We develop a closed-form analytical theory for the transport of a chiral active Brownian particle (cABP) in three dimensions, moving through a fluctuating local density field that coarse-grains steric and dynamical interactions in a dense…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-25 Jayam Joshi , Shradha Mishra

Experiments have shown that self-propelled particles can slide along the surface of a circular obstacle without becoming trapped over long times. Using simulations and theory, we study the impact of boundary conditions on the diffusive…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Theresa Jakuszeit , Ottavio A. Croze , Samuel Bell

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

Directed motion up a concentration gradient is crucial for the survival and maintenance of numerous biological systems, such as sperms moving towards an egg during fertilization or ciliates moving towards a food source. In these systems,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-01 Bhavesh Valecha , Hossein Vahid , Pietro Luigi Muzzeddu , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Abhinav Sharma

Active matter systems comprise self-propelled particles that move on a substrate while leaving chemical trails that influence other particles through chemotaxis (e.g., slime-depositing bacteria). Orientational chemotaxis manifests as a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-11 Aymeric Lutier , Frédéric van Wijland , Jean-Baptiste Fournier

Living systems are chiral on multiple scales, from constituent biopolymers to large scale morphology, and their active mechanics is both driven by chiral components and serves to generate chiral morphologies. We describe the mechanics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-03 Sami C. Al-Izzi , Gareth P. Alexander

In chemistry and biochemistry, chirality represents the structural asymmetry characterized by non-superimposable mirror images for a material like DNA. In physics, however, chirality commonly refers to the spin-momentum locking of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-07 Binghai Yan

One of the intrinsic characteristics of far-from-equilibrium systems is the nonrelaxational nature of the system dynamics, which leads to novel properties that cannot be understood and described by conventional pathways based on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-25 Zhi-Feng Huang , Andreas M. Menzel , Hartmut Löwen

Inspired by groups of animals and robots, we study the collective dynamics of large numbers of active particles, each one trying to get to its own randomly placed target, while avoiding collisions with each other. The particles we study are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-09 Mathias Casiulis , Dov Levine