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We study a new type of 2D active material that exhibits macroscopic phases with two emergent broken symmetries: self-propelled achiral particles that form dense hexatic clusters, which spontaneously rotate. We experimentally realise active…

The non-equilibrium structural and dynamical properties of a semiflexible polymer confined in a cylindrical microchannel and exposed to a Poiseuille flow is studied by mesoscale hydrodynamic simulations. For a polymer with a length half of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-08-09 Raghunath Chelakkot , Roland. G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

We investigate conformations and dynamics of a polymer considering its monomers to be active Brownian particles. This active polymer shows very intriguing physical behavior which is absent in an active Rouse chain. The chain initially…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-13 Shalabh K. Anand , Sunil P. Singh

While the dynamics of polymer chains in equilibrium media is well understood by now, the polymer dynamics in active non-equilibrium environments can be very different. Here we study the dynamics of polymers in a viscous medium containing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-23 Jaeoh Shin , Andrey G. Cherstvy , Won Kyu Kim , Vasily Zaburdaev

We investigate the motion of active semiflexible filament with shape kinematics and hydrodynamic interaction including. Three types of filament motion are found: Translation, snaking and rotation. Change of flexibility will induce…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-10-24 Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

The interplay of inertia and elasticity is shown to have a significant impact on the transport of filamentary objects, modelled by bead-spring chains, in a two-dimensional turbulent flow. We show how elastic interactions amongst inertial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-27 Rahul Singh , Mohit Gupta , Jason R. Picardo , Dario Vincenzi , Samriddhi Sankar Ray

The collective behavior of active semiflexible filaments is studied with a model of tangentially driven self-propelled worm-like chains. The combination of excluded-volume interactions and self-propulsion leads to several distinct dynamic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Ozer Duman , Rolf E. Isele-Holder , Jens Elgeti , Gerhard Gompper

We numerically study the dynamics of two-dimensional blue phases in active chiral liquid crystals. We show that introducing contractile activity results in stabilised blue phases, while small extensile activity generates ordered but dynamic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-27 Luuk Metselaar , Amin Doostmohammadi , Julia M. Yeomans

The nonequilibrium dynamical behavior and structure formation of end-functionalized semiflexible polymer suspensions under flow are investigated by mesoscale hydrodynamic simulations. The hybrid simulation approach combines the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-11-04 Jin Suk Myung , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

We numerically examine mixtures of circularly moving and passive disks as a function of density and active orbit radius. For low or intermediate densities and/or small orbit radii, the system can organize into a reversible partially phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-13 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

We study the relaxation of the bi-dimensional kinetically constrained spiral model. We show that due to the reversibility of the dynamic rules any unblocked state fully decorrelates in finite times irrespectively of the system being in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-28 Federico Corberi , Leticia F. Cugliandolo

We discover an instability mechanism in suspensions of self-propelled particles that does not involve active stress. Instead, it is driven by a subtle interplay of inertia, swimmer motility, and concentration fluctuations, through a crucial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-16 Purnima Jain , Navdeep Rana , Sriram Ramaswamy , Prasad Perlekar

This work investigates the effects of tangent polar activity on the conformational and dynamic properties of entangled polymer melts through Langevin molecular dynamics simulations. We examine systems composed of all self-propelled,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-19 Javier Oller-Iscar , Andrés R. Tejedor , Marisol Ripoll , Jorge Ramírez

Increasing evidence suggests that active matter exhibits instances of mixed symmetry that cannot be fully described by either polar or nematic formalism. Here, we introduce a minimal model that integrates self-propulsion into the active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Niels de Graaf Sousa , Simon Guldager Andersen , Aleksandra Ardaševa , Amin Doostmohammadi

There has been much recent interest in the chiral motion of achiral particles that sediment in a viscous fluid in a regime where inertial effects can be neglected. This occurs in a broad range of applications such as those involving…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-16 Christian Vaquero-Stainer , Tymoteusz Miara , Anne Juel , Matthias Heil , Draga Pihler-Puzović

We present experimental measurements on the spontaneous formation of compact spiral structures in vertically-vibrated granular chains. Under weak vibration, when the chain is quasi two-dimensional and self-avoiding, spiral structures emerge…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. E. Ecke , Z. A. Daya , M. K. Rivera , E. Ben-Naim

We investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of semiflexible polymers driven by motor proteins (MPs) in two-dimensional motility assays under harmonic confinement. Using a coarse-grained agent-based model that incorporates stochastic motor…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 Sandip Roy , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Anil Kumar Dasanna

We investigate the transport feature of an inertial chiral active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle moving on a two-dimensional surface. Using both analytical approach and numerical simulations, we have exactly explored the transient and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-10 F Sahala , M Muhsin , M Sahoo

Active fluids such as bacterial swarms, self-propelled colloids, and cell tissues can all display complex spatio-temporal vortices that are reminiscent of inertial turbulence. This emergent behavior despite the overdamped nature of these…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-15 Amal Manoharan , Sanjay CP , Ashwin Joy

Inert particles suspended in active fluids of self-propelled particles are known to often exhibit enhanced diffusion and novel coherent structures. Here we numerically investigate the dynamical behavior and self-organization in a system…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-04 Kyongmin Yeo , Enkeleida Lushi , Petia M. Vlahovska