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We numerically investigate the ratchet transport of mixtures of active and passive particles in a transversal asymmetric channel.A big passive particle is immersed in a 'sea' of active particles. Due to the chirality of active particles,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-28 Bao-quan Ai

We studied a collection of chiral active particles (CAP) on a two dimensional substrate using extensive numerical study. Particles interact through soft repulsive interaction. The activity and chirality of particles is tuned by varying…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-22 Vivek Semwal , Jayam Joshi , Shradha Mishra

While the behavior of active colloidal molecules is well studied by now for a constant activity, the effect of activity gradients is much less understood. Here we explore one of the simplest molecules in activity gradients, namely active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-19 Pietro Luigi Muzzeddu , Hidde Derk Vuijk , Hartmut Lowen , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Abhinav Sharma

Understanding interactions between chiral active particles -- self-propelling and self-rotating entities -- is crucial for uncovering how chiral active matter self-organizes into dynamic structures. Although fluctuation-induced forces in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-25 Hashem Fatemi , Hamidreza Khalilian , Jalal Sarabadani , M. Reza Shaebani

Chirality is a recurrent theme in the study of biological systems, in which active processes are driven by the internal conversion of chemical energy into work. Bacterial flagella, acto-myosin filaments and microtubule bundles are active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-01 Livio Nicola Carenza , Giuseppe Gonnella , Davide Marenduzzo , Giuseppe Negro

Transport of a moving V-shaped barrier exposed to a bath of chiral active particles is investigated in a two-dimensional channel. Due to the chirality of active particles and the transversal asymmetry of the barrier position, active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-06 Jing-jing Liao , Xiao-qun Huang , Bao-quan Ai

Controlling the motion of active matter is a central issue that has recently garnered significant attention in fields ranging from non-equilibrium physics to chemical engineering and biology. Distinct methods for controlling active matter…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-25 Archit Negi , Kazusa Beppu , Yusuke T. Maeda

Active matter systems characterized by the interplay of chirality and self-alignment offer a rich landscape for the emergence of non-equilibrium collective behaviors and the development of autonomous materials. We present a versatile…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-20 Timo Wagner , Michael Himpel , Thomas Ihle , Horst-Holger Boltz

Active particles with their characteristic feature of self-propulsion are regarded as the simplest models for motility in living systems. The accumulation of active particles in low activity regions has led to the general belief that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-26 Hidde D. Vuijk , Holger Merlitz , Michael Lang , Abhinav Sharma , Jens-Uwe Sommer

How chirality propagates across scales remains an open question in many biological and synthetic systems. An especially clear manifestation of this propagation is found in in vitro gliding assays of cytoskeletal filaments on surfaces,…

Active fluids are a class of non-equilibrium systems where energy is injected into the system continuously by the constituent particles themselves. Many examples, such as bacterial suspensions and actomyosin networks, are intrinsically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-26 Elsen Tjhung , Michael E. Cates , Davide Marenduzzo

We investigate the interplay between chirality and confinement in harmonically trapped active particles. The circular character of chiral motion combines with the radial symmetry of the potential to create distinctive non-equilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-23 Hrithik Barman

In this work, we study the stationary behavior of an assembly of independent chiral active particles under confinement by employing an extension of the active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model. The chirality modeled by means of an effective torque…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-14 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

We investigate the interplay between chirality and confinement induced by the presence of an external potential. For potentials having radial symmetry, the circular character of the trajectories induced by the chiral motion reduces the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-08 Lorenzo Caprini , Hartmut Löwen , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Chiral active matter comprises particles which can self-propel and self-rotate. Examples range from sperm cells and bacteria near walls to asymmetric colloids and pea-shaped Quincke rollers. In this perspective article we focus on recent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-12 Benno Liebchen , Demian Levis

The interplay of electrons with a chiral medium has a diverse impact across science and technology, influencing drug separation, chemical reactions, and electronic transport. In particular, such electronchirality interactions can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Anil Kumar Singh , Kevin Martin , Maurizio Mastropasqua Talamo , Axel Houssin , Nicolas Vanthuyne , Narcis Avarvari , Oren Tal

We investigate the dynamics of passive particles immersed in a bath of chiral active particles, focusing on the emergence of collective rotational motion. Using numerical simulations, we show that passive particles aggregate into clusters…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-14 Divya Kushwaha , Abhra Puitandy , Shradha Mishra

Biological organisms often have elongated, flexible structures with some degree of chirality in their bodies or movements. In nature, these organisms frequently take advantage of self-encapsulation mechanisms that create folded…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-04 Lorenzo Caprini , Iman Abdoli , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Hartmut Löwen

Colloidal inclusions suspended in a bath of smaller particles experience an effective bath-mediated attraction at small intersurface separations, which is known as the depletion interaction. In an active bath of nonchiral self-propelled…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-02 Abdolhalim Torrik , Ali Naji , Mahdi Zarif

Active hydrodynamic theories are a powerful tool to study the emergent ordered phases of internally driven particles such as bird flocks, bacterial suspension and their artificial analogues. While theories of orientationally ordered phases…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-06 Ananyo Maitra , Martin Lenz
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