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Chiral active materials are abundant in nature, including the cytoskeleton with attached motor proteins, rotary clusters of bacteria flagella, and self-spinning starfish embryos. These materials break both time reversal and mirror-image…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-17 Cheng-Tai Lee , Tom C. Lubensky , Tomer Markovich

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

Hooke's law states that the forces or stresses experienced by an elastic object are proportional to the applied deformations or strains. The number of coefficients of proportionality between stress and strain, i.e., the elastic moduli, is…

Crystallography typically studies collections of point particles whose interaction forces are the gradient of a potential. Lifting this assumption generically gives rise in the continuum limit to a form of elasticity with additional moduli…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-30 Lara Braverman , Colin Scheibner , Bryan VanSaders , Vincenzo Vitelli

Elasticity typically refers to a material's ability to store energy, while viscosity refers to a material's tendency to dissipate it. In this review, we discuss fluids and solids for which this is not the case. These materials display…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-29 Michel Fruchart , Colin Scheibner , Vincenzo Vitelli

A wide range of physical and biological systems, including colloidal magnets, granular spinners, and starfish embryos, are characterized by strongly rotating units that give rise to odd viscosity and odd elasticity. These active systems can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-28 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Disordered granular matter exhibits mechanical responses that occupy the boundary between fluids and solids, lacking a complete description within a continuum theoretical framework. Recent studies have shown that, in the quasi-static limit,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-26 Noemie S. Livne , Tuhin Samanta , Amit Schiller , Itamar Procaccia , Michael Moshe

Non-reciprocal interactions fueled by local energy consumption can be found in biological and synthetic active matter at scales where viscoelastic forces are important. Such systems can be described by "odd" viscoelasticity, which assumes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-31 Carlos Floyd , Aaron R. Dinner , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

Stress-strain constitutive relations in solids with an internal angular degree of freedom can be modelled using Cosserat (also called micropolar) elasticity. In this paper, we explore the phenomenology for a natural extension of Cosserat…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-19 Piotr Surówka , Anton Souslov , Frank Jülicher , Debarghya Banerjee

A host of elastic systems consisting of active components exhibit path-dependent elastic behaviors not found in classical elasticity, which is known as odd elasticity. Odd elasticity is characterized by antisymmetric (odd) elastic modulus…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-29 Yi-Heng Zhang , Zhenwei Yao

Rheological properties of chiral active materials have been an important area of research in the recent past, in particular regarding odd terms in their mechanical response. While much progress has been made in the study of odd viscous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-08 Debarghya Banerjee , Peter Sollich

Dry granular materials such as sand, gravel, pills, or agricultural grains, can become rigid when compressed or sheared. At low density, one can distort the shape of a container of granular material without encountering any resistance.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-08 Yiqiu Zhao , Yuchen Zhao , Dong Wang , Hu Zheng , Bulbul Chakraborty , Joshua E. S. Socolar

Chiral active fluids are materials composed of self-spinning rotors that continuously inject energy and angular momentum at the microscale. Out-of-equilibrium fluids with active-rotor constituents have been experimentally realized using…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-22 Debarghya Banerjee , Anton Souslov , Alexander G. Abanov , Vincenzo Vitelli

We show from experiments and simulations on vibration-activated granular matter that self-propelled polar rods in an elastic medium on a substrate turn and move towards each other. We account for this effective attraction through a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-08 Rahul Kumar Gupta , Raushan Kant , Harsh Soni , A. K. Sood , Sriram Ramaswamy

Non-cohesive granular media exhibit complex responses to sudden impact that often differ from those of ordinary solids and liquids. We investigate how this response is mediated by the presence of interstitial gas between the grains. Using…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-27 John R. Royer , Eric I. Corwin , Peter J. Eng , Heinrich M. Jaeger

The mechanical response of naturally abundant amorphous solids such as gels, jammed grains, and biological tissues are not described by the conventional paradigm of broken symmetry that defines crystalline elasticity. In contrast, the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-29 Jishnu N. Nampoothiri , Yinqiao Wang , Kabir Ramola , Jie Zhang , Subhro Bhattacharjee , Bulbul Chakraborty

The hyperstatic nature of granular packings of perfectly rigid disks is analyzed algebraically and through numerical simulation. The elementary loops of grains emerge as a fundamental element in addressing hyperstaticity. Loops consisting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Antoinette Tordesillas , Edward Lam , Philip T. Metzger

Recent experimental results on the static or quasistatic response of granular materials have been interpreted to suggest the inapplicability of the traditional engineering approaches, which are based on elasto-plastic models (which are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Chay Goldenberg , Isaac Goldhirsch

We perform numerical simulations of a model micromachine driven by catalytic chemical reactions. Our model includes a mechano-chemical coupling between the structural variables and the nonequilibrium variable describing the catalytic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-28 Akira Kobayashi , Kento Yasuda , Kenta Ishimoto , Li-Shing Lin , Isamu Sou , Yuto Hosaka , Shigeyuki Komura

A simple analytical model of intergranular normal stresses is proposed for a general elastic polycrystalline material with arbitrary shaped and randomly oriented grains under uniform loading. The model provides algebraic expressions for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-21 Samir El Shawish , Timon Mede
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