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A dilute suspension of active Brownian particles in a dense compressible viscoelastic fluid, forms a natural setting to study the emergence of nonreciprocity during a dynamical phase transition. At these densities, the transport of active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-14 Jyoti Prasad Banerjee , Rituparno Mandal , Deb Sankar Banerjee , Shashi Thutupalli , Madan Rao

The collective chasing dynamics of non-reciprocally coupled densities leads to stable travelling waves which can be mapped to a model for emergent flocking. In this work, we couple the non-reciprocal Cahn-Hilliard model (NRCH) to a fluid to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-08 Giulia Pisegna , Navdeep Rana , Ramin Golestanian , Suropriya Saha

In this paper, we develop and analyze a minimal model for a 2D network of cross-linked actin filaments and myosin motors, representing the cortical cytoskeleton of eukaryotic cells. We implement coarse-grained representations of force…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2016-12-23 William M. McFadden , Patrick M. McCall , Edwin M. Munro

The ability to create linear systems that manifest broadband nonreciprocal wave propagation would provide for exquisite control over acoustic signals for electronic filtering in communication and noise control. Until now, acoustic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Aritra Sasmal , Nathan Geib , Karl Grosh

To study the impact of active systems on their surroundings, we introduce a model that couples an active nematic fluid to an isotropic substrate fluid via friction. We numerically show that as the active layer develops turbulence, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-01 Gianmarco Spera , Julia M. Yeomans , Sumesh P. Thampi

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

We present a model of active particles interacting through a dynamic, heterogeneous environment, leading to emergent collective behaviors without direct agent-to-agent communication. Expanding the resource-dependent framework introduced in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Gaston Briozzo , Gustavo J. Sibona , Fernando Peruani

The actin cytoskeleton is an active semi-flexible polymer network whose non-equilibrium properties coordinate both stable and contractile behaviors to maintain or change cell shape. While myosin motors drive the actin cytoskeleton…

Material renewability in active living systems, such as in cells and tissues, can drive the large-scale patterning of forces, with distinctive phenotypic consequences. This is especially significant in the cell cytoskeleton, where multiple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-25 Ayan Roychowdhury , Saptarshi Dasgupta , Madan Rao

Spatially localised defect structures emerge spontaneously in a hydrodynamic description of an active polar fluid comprising polar 'actin' filaments and 'myosin' motor proteins that (un)bind to filaments and exert active contractile…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Kabir Husain , Madan Rao

Weakly nonlinear amplitude equations are derived for the onset of spatially extended patterns on a general class of n-component bulk-surface reaction-diffusion systems in a ball, under the assumption of linear kinetics in the bulk and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-05-27 Edgardo Villar-Sepúlveda , Alan R. Champneys , Davide Cusseddu , Anotida Madzvamuse

Many biological systems are appropriately viewed as passive inclusions immersed in an active bath: from proteins on active membranes to microscopic swimmers confined by boundaries. The non-equilibrium forces exerted by the active bath on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-06 Alpha A. Lee , Dominic Vella , John S. Wettlaufer

Flow networks are fundamental for understanding systems such as animal and plant vasculature or power distribution grids. These networks can encode, transmit, and transform information embodied in the spatial and temporal distribution of…

In active systems, whose constituents have non-equilibrium dynamics at local level, fluid-fluid phase separation is widely observed. Examples include the formation of membraneless organelles within cells; the clustering of self-propelled…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-11 M. E. Cates , C. Nardini

Based on a Hamiltonian that incorporates the elastic coupling between a tracer and active particles, we derive a generalized Langevin model for the non-equilibrium mechanical response of active viscoelastic biomatter. Our model accounts for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-26 Amir Abbasi , Roland R. Netz , Ali Naji

We use Langevin dynamics simulations to study dynamical behaviour of a dense planar layer of active semi-flexible filaments. Using the strength of active force and the thermal persistence length as parameters, we map a detailed phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-21 K. R. Prathyusha , Silke Henkes , Rastko Sknepnek

Surface curvature of magnetic systems can lead to many static and dynamic effects which are not present in flat systems of the same material. These emergent magnetochiral effects can lead to frequency nonreciprocity of spin waves, which has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Lukas Körber , Roman Verba , Jorge A. Otálora , Volodymyr Kravchuk , Jürgen Lindner , Jürgen Fassbender , Attila Kákay

We derive an equation that governs the spatiotemporal dynamics of small amplitude alternans in paced cardiac tissue. We show that a pattern-forming linear instability leads to the spontaneous formation of stationary or traveling waves whose…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Blas Echebarria , Alain Karma

We theoretically study mixtures of chemically-interacting particles, which produce or consume a chemical to which they are attracted or repelled, in the most general case of many coexisting species. We find a new class of active phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-15 Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Ramin Golestanian

Segregation patterns of size-bidisperse particle mixtures in a fully-three-dimensional flow produced by alternately rotating a spherical tumbler about two perpendicular axes are studied over a range of particle sizes and volume ratios using…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-03 Mengqi Yu , Paul B. Umbanhowar , Julio M. Ottino , Richard M. Lueptow