English
Related papers

Related papers: Active waves from non-reciprocity and cytoplasmic …

200 papers

Phase separation, the spontaneous segregation of density, is a ubiquitous phenomenon observed across diverse physical and biological systems. Within a crowd of motile elements, active phase separation emerges from the interplay of activity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-26 Kyosuke Adachi

Non dispersive electronic Rydberg wave packets may be created in atoms illuminated by a microwave field of circular polarization. We discuss the spontaneous emission from such states and show that the elastic incoherent component (occuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dominique Delande , Jakub Zakrzewski

Laminar-turbulent pattern formation is a distinctive feature of the intermittency regime in subcritical plane shear flows. By performing extensive numerical simulations of the plane channel flow, we show that the pattern emerges from a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-16 Pavan V. Kashyap , Yohann Duguet , Olivier Dauchot

In several pathological conditions, such as coronavirus infections, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, the physiological shape of axons is altered and a periodic sequence of bulges appears. Experimental evidences…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Davide Riccobelli

We report the first experimental realization of pattern formation in a spatially extended nonlinear system when the system is alternated between two states, neither of which exhibits patterning. Dynamical equations modeling the system are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 J. P. Sharpe , P. L. Ramazza , N. Sungar , Karl Saunders

Nonreciprocal transport of electromagnetic waves within magnetized plasma is a powerful building block towards understanding and exploiting the properties of more general topological systems. Much recent attention has been paid to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-06 Feng Li , Robert J. Davis , Sara M. Kandil , Daniel F. Sievenpiper

We study a process of pattern formation for a generic model of species anchored to the nodes of a network where local reactions take place, and that experience non-reciprocal long-range interactions, encoded by the network directed links.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Timoteo Carletti , Riccardo Muolo

Active networks made of biopolymers and motor proteins are valuable bioinspired systems that have been used in the last decades to study the cytoskeleton and its self-organization under mechanical stimulation. Different techniques are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-15 Vahid Nasirimarekani , Olinka Ramìrez-Soto , Stefan Karpitschka , Isabella Guido

We consider the weak turbulence of whistler waves in the in low-\beta\ inner magnetosphere of the Earth. Whistler waves with frequencies, originating in the ionosphere, propagate radially outward and can trigger nonlinear induced scattering…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-03-23 C. Crabtree , L. Rudakov , G. Ganguli , M. Mithaiwala , V. Galinsky , V. Shevchenko

In this paper, we bring together our efforts in identifying and understanding nonequilibrium phase segregation driven by active processes in the living cell, with special focus on the segregation of cell membrane components driven by active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-04 Ajay Bansal , Amit Das , Madan Rao

In this paper we describe how to derive the expressions for the higher nonlinear generation of waves, their transmission and reflection for the case of a normal incidence plane wave by direct superposition of nonlinear dipoles. We describe…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-27 Hendradi Hardhienata

Turing's mechanism is often invoked to explain periodic patterns in nature, although direct experimental support is scarce. Turing patterns form in reaction-diffusion systems when the activating species diffuse much slower than the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Lucas Menou , Chengjie Luo , David Zwicker

We examine a non-reciprocally coupled dynamical model of a mixture of two diffusing species. We demonstrate that nonreciprocity, which is encoded in the model via antagonistic cross diffusivities, provides a generic mechanism for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-21 Zhihong You , Aparna Baskaran , M. Cristina Marchetti

Active matter, comprising many active agents interacting and moving in fluids or more complex environments, is a commonly occurring state of matter in biological and physical systems. By its very nature active matter systems exist in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-08 Pierre Gaspard , Raymond Kapral

Wave turbulence describes the long-time statistical behavior of out-of-equilibrium systems composed of weakly interacting waves. Non-Hermitian media ranging from open quantum systems to active materials can sustain wave propagation in…

Recently, we proposed a self-propelled particle model with competing alignment interactions: nearby particles tend to align their velocities whereas they anti-align their direction of motion with particles which are further away [R.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-02 Robert Großmann , Pawel Romanczuk , Markus Bär , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

It is well-known that the resonance phenomena can destroy the adiabatic invariance and cause chaos and mixing. In the present paper we show that the nonlinear wave-particle resonant interaction may cause the emergence of large-scale…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Fan Wu , Dmitri Vainchtein , Anton Artemyev

We investigate the transfer and control of nonreciprocity through magnons themselves in permalloy thin films deposited on surface oxide silicon substrate. Evidences of nonreciprocal emergence of hybridized dipole exchange magnons (spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Wenjie Song , Xiansi Wang , Chenglong Jia , Xiangrong Wang , Changjun Jiang , Desheng Xue , Guozhi Chai

Active fluids, such as suspensions of microswimmers, are known to self-organize into complex spatio-temporal flow patterns. An intriguing example is mesoscale turbulence, a state of dynamic vortex structures exhibiting a characteristic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-02 Henning Reinken , Sebastian Heidenreich , Markus Bär , Sabine H. L. Klapp

Biological systems rely on autonomous modes of charge transport to transmit signals, whereas conventional artificial systems typically depend on external fields, such as voltage or pressure gradients, limiting their adaptability. Here we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-20 Sergi G. Leyva , Ahis Shresta , Monica Olvera de la Cruz