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Diffusive transport is characterized by a diffusivity tensor which may, in general, contain both a symmetric and an antisymmetric component. Although the latter is often neglected, we derive Green-Kubo relations showing it to be a general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-08 Cory Hargus , Jeffrey M. Epstein , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

Active microswimmers are known to affect the macroscopic viscosity of suspensions in a more complex manner than passive particles. For puller-like microswimmers an increase in the viscosity has been observed. It has been suggested that the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Matthias Mussler , Salima Rafai , Philippe Peyla , Christian Wagner

Microswimmers are encountered in a wide variety of biophysical settings. When interacting with flow fields, they show interesting dynamical features such as trapping, clustering, and preferential orientation. One important step towards the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-02 José-Agustín Arguedas-Leiva , Michael Wilczek

We utilize the chiral kinetic theory in a relaxation-time approximation to investigate the nonlinear anomalous responses of chiral fluids with viscous effects. Unlike the cases in equilibrium, it is found that the chiral magnetic effect and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Yoshimasa Hidaka , Di-Lun Yang

When submerged in a chiral active bath, a passive object becomes a spinning ratchet imbued with odd transport properties. We present the most general Langevin dynamics for a rigid body in a chiral active bath, in the adiabatic limit of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-02 Cory Hargus , Federico Ghimenti , Julien Tailleur , Frédéric van Wijland

Microswimmers are active particles of microscopic size that self-propel by setting the surrounding fluid into motion. According to the kind of far-field fluid flow that they induce, they are classified into pushers and pullers. Many studies…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-01 Giorgio Pessot , Hartmut Löwen , Andreas M. Menzel

The electrophoresis of charged colloidal particles in fluids exhibiting odd viscosity represents a fundamental challenge in understanding transport phenomena within charge-stabilized chiral active suspensions. Here, we provide the first…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-10 Reinier van Buel , Bogdan Cichocki , Jeffrey C. Everts

Active cholesterics are chiral in both their structure, which has continuous screw symmetry, and their active stresses, which include contributions from torque dipoles. Both expressions of chirality give rise to curl forces in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-04 Gareth P. Alexander , S. J. Kole , Ananyo Maitra , Sriram Ramaswamy

It is shown that nonsymmetric microobjects orient while settling under gravity in a viscous fluid. To analyze this process, a simple shape is chosen: a non-deformable `chain'. The chain consists of two straight arms, made of touching solid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Maria L. Ekiel-Jezewska , Eligiusz Wajnryb

In simple fluids, such as water, invariance under parity and time-reversal symmetry imposes that the rotation of constituent 'atoms' are determined by the flow and that viscous stresses damp motion. Activation of the rotational degrees of…

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

The survival of many microorganisms, like \textit{Leptospira} or \textit{Spiroplasma} bacteria, can depend on their ability to navigate towards regions of favorable viscosity. While this ability, called viscotaxis, has been observed in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-23 Benno Liebchen , Paul Monderkamp , Borge ten Hagen , Hartmut Löwen

When a solid body floats at the interface of a vibrating liquid bath, the relative motion between the object and interface generates outwardly propagating surface waves. It has recently been demonstrated that millimetric objects with…

Odd viscosity can emerge in 3D hydrodynamics when the time reversal symmetry is broken and anisotropy is introduced. Its ramifications on the stability of the prototypical Taylor-Couette flow in curved geometries have remained unexplored.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-22 Guangle Du , Rudolf Podgornik

It is well known that the difference between the chemical potentials of left-handed and right-handed particles in a parity violating (chiral) plasma can lead to an instability. We show that the chiral instability may drive turbulent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-18 Avdhesh Kumar , Jitesh R. Bhatt , Amita Das , P. K. Kaw

We study the shear-induced behavior of chiral (circle-swimming) and nonchiral swimmers in a planar channel subjected to Poiseuille (pressure-driven) flow. The swimmers are modeled as active Brownian spheroids, self-propelling with a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-17 Mohammad Reza Shabanniya , Amir Abbasi , Arghavan Partovifard , Ali Naji

Unsteadiness occurs in the low Reynolds number swimmers' motion while they start from rest or escape from a predator or attack prey. In this paper, we study an unsteady chiral swimmer's behavior, with a prescribed surface slip velocity, in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-20 Ruma Maity , P. S. Burada

Many biological microorganisms and artificial microswimmers react to external cues of environmental gradients by changing their swimming directions. We study here the behavior of eukarytic flagellated microswimmers in linear viscosity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-29 Shubham Anand , Jens Elgeti , Gerhard Gompper

Swimming micro-organisms such as flagellated bacteria and sperm cells have fascinating locomotion capabilities. Inspired by their natural motion, there is an ongoing effort to develop artificial robotic nano-swimmers for potential in-body…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-31 Jithu Paul , Yizhar Or , Oleg Gendelman

Transport of material across liquid interfaces is ubiquitous for living cells and is also a crucial step in drug delivery and in many industrial processes. The fluids that are present on either side of the interfaces will usually have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-24 Chao Feng , John J. Molina , Matthew S. Turner , Ryoichi Yamamoto