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The dynamics of magnetic moments consist of a precession around the magnetic field direction and a relaxation towards the field to minimize the energy. While the magnetic moment and the angular momentum are conventionally assumed to be…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-14 Ritwik Mondal , Levente Rózsa , Michael Farle , Peter M. Oppeneer , Ulrich Nowak , Mikhail Cherkasskii

Collective rotations are common in active matter, enhancing cohesion, transport, and mixing. They are typically attributed to chiral non-reciprocal dynamics due to intrinsic particle chirality, torque-generating interactions among units, or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-20 Maks Pečnik Bambič , Nuno A. M. Araújo , Giorgio Volpe

The state of a classical point-particle system may often be specified by giving the position and momentum for each constituent particle. For non-pointlike particles, the center-of-mass position may be augmented by an additional coordinate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-02 Rahil N. Valani , David M. Paganin

Small non-spherical particles settling in a quiescent fluid tend to orient so that their broad side faces down, because this is a stable fixed point of their angular dynamics at small particle Reynolds number. Turbulence randomises the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-01 K. Gustavsson , M. Z. Sheikh , A. Naso , A. Pumir , B. Mehlig

We investigate the interplay between chemotaxis and alignment interactions in active rod-like particles, such as E. coli and Janus rods. Starting from a discrete model of self-propelled rods with chemotactic responses, we employ a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-24 Shun Sakurai , Nariya Uchida

We consider the ordered and disordered dynamics for monolayers of rolling self-interacting particles with an offset center of mass and a non-isotropic inertia tensor. The rolling constraint is considered as a simplified model of a very…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Byungsoo Kim , Vakhtang Putkaradze

The accumulation of self-propelled particles on repulsive barriers is a widely observed feature in active matter. Despite being implicated in a broad range of biological processes, from biofilm formation to cytoskeletal movement, wetting of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-12 Noah Grodzinski , Michael E. Cates , Robert L. Jack

Active particles (i.e., self-propelled particles or called microswimmers), different from passive Brownian particles, possess more complicated translational and angular dynamics, which can generate a series of anomalous transport phenomena.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 Ze-Hao Chen , Zhi-Xi Wu

The dynamical properties of a particle in a gravitational field colliding with a rigid wall moving with piecewise constant velocity are studied. The linear nature of the wall's motion permits further analytical investigation than is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-02 Cameron K. Langer , Bruce N. Miller

We classify the interactions between self-propelled particles moving at a constant speed from symmetry considerations. We establish a systematic expansion for the two-body forces in the spirit of a multipolar expansion. This formulation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-04-24 Jean-Baptiste Caussin , Denis Bartolo

In this paper we consider the nonlinear beam equations accounting for rotational inertial forces. Under suitable hypotheses we prove the existence, regularity and finite dimensionality of a compact global attractor and an exponential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Takayuki Niimura

The spin dynamics in a broad range of systems can be studied using circularly polarized optical excitation with alternating helicity. The dependence of spin polarization on the frequency of helicity alternation, known as the spin inertia…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 E. A. Zhukov , E. Kirstein , D. S. Smirnov , D. R. Yakovlev , M. M. Glazov , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , M. Bayer , A. Greilich

Large scale features of a randomly isotropically forced incompressible and unbounded rotating fluid are examined in perturbation theory. At first order in both the random force amplitude and the angular velocity we find two types of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jose Gaite , David Hochberg , Carmen Molina-Paris

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

The influence of possible magnetic inertia effects has recently drawn attention in ultrafast magnetization dynamics and switching. Here we derive rigorously a description of inertia in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation on the basis of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-07-26 Ritwik Mondal , Marco Berritta , Ashis K. Nandy , Peter M. Oppeneer

We investigate the effect of translational and rotational inertia on motility-induced phase separation in underdamped active dumbbells and identify the emergence of four distinct kinetic temperatures across the coexisting phases-unlike in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-30 Subhasish Chaki , Hartmut Löwen

The inertial effects of magnetic solitons play a crucial role in their dynamics and stability. Yet governing their inertial effects is a challenge for their use in real devices. Here, we show how to control the inertial effects of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 M. Mohseni , D. R. Rodrigues , M. Saghafi , S. Chung , M. Ahlberg , H. F. Yazdi , Q. Wang , S. A. H. Banouazizi , P. Pirro , J. Åkerman , M. Mohseni

Elasto-inertial turbulence (EIT) is primarily driven by polymer elasticity, yet the modulating role of fluid inertia is non-negligible and remains largely unexplored. To investigate the effect of inertia, we perform direct numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-24 Haotian Cheng , Hongna Zhang , Wenhua Zhang , Yuke Li , Xiaobin Li , Fengchen Li

We consider the excitation of the inertial modes of a uniformly rotating fully convective body due to a close encounter with another object. This could lead to a tidal capture or orbital circularisation depending on whether the initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. C. B. Papaloizou , P. B. Ivanov

Systems composed of strongly interacting self-propelled particles can form a spontaneously flowing polar active fluid. The study of the connection between the microscopic dynamics of a single such particle and the macroscopic dynamics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-02 Benjamin Loewe , Anton Souslov , Paul M. Goldbart