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Chiral active matter is a variant of active matter systems in which the motion of the constituent particles violates mirror symmetry. In this letter, we simulate two-dimensional chiral Active Brownian Particles, the simplest chiral model in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-03 Kangeun Jeong , Yuta Kuroda , Yuki Asatani , Takeshi Kawasaki , Kunimasa Miyazaki

Chiral active matter widely exists in nature and emerges rich dynamical behaviors. Among these, chiral active particles (CAPs) with alignment effects show novel collective motions such as orderly rotating droplets and distinct phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-25 Dongrun Jian , Jie Su , Jun Wang , Jin Wang

Active matter systems under confinement display persistent surface motion and a strong boundary affinity. However, despite extensive studies of their positional dynamics, much less attention has been given to the corresponding orientational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-21 Elsa Baby , Manoj Gopalakrishnan , Vishwas V. Vasisht

We discuss the two-dimensional motion of a Brownian particle that is confined to a harmonic trap and driven by a shear flow. The surrounding medium induces memory effects modelled by a linear, typically nonreciprocal coupling of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-26 Lea Fernandez , Siegfried Hess , Sabine H. L. Klapp

Chiral active particles (CAPs) are self-propelling particles that break time-reversal symmetry by orbiting or spinning, leading to intriguing behaviors. Here, we examined the dynamics of CAPs moving in 2D lattices of disk obstacles through…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-20 Chung Wing Chan , Daihui Wu , Kaiyao Qiao , Kin Long Fong , Zhiyu Yang , Yilong Han , Rui Zhang

The dynamics of chiral nuclei is investigated for the first time with the time-dependent and tilted axis cranking covariant density functional theories on a three-dimensional space lattice in a microscopic and self-consistent way. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-08 Z. X. Ren , P. W. Zhao , J. Meng

We study the dynamics of inertial active particles in a one-dimensional chain with harmonic nearest-neighbor interactions, highlighting the interplay of persistence, interaction, and inertial timescales. Using a Green's function approach,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Manish Patel , Subhajit Paul , Debasish Chaudhuri

We investigate density fluctuations in three-dimensional chiral active fluids by using a simple model of helical self-propelled particles. Helical motion is generated by a constant angular velocity (or chiral torque) acting on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-29 Yuta Kuroda , Takeshi Kawasaki , Kunimasa Miyazaki

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

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

Inertia is intrinsic to many living and synthetic active systems, from animals and robotic agents to colloidal swimmers, and it strongly shapes transport. Many such systems employ intermittent restart protocols to regulate exploration.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-25 Manish Patel , Amir Shee

The interplay between the chirality of many biological molecules and the energy injected at small length-scales as the result of biological processes is at the base of the life of the cells. With the aim of unveiling the connection between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-18 Livio Nicola Carenza , Giuseppe Gonnella , Davide Marenduzzo , Giuseppe Negro

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,…

In equilibrium liquid crystals, chirality leads to a variety of spectacular three-dimensional structures, but chiral and achiral phases with the same broken continuous symmetries have identical long-time, large-scale dynamics. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-23 S. J. Kole , Gareth P. Alexander , Sriram Ramaswamy , Ananyo Maitra

We investigate a two-dimensional system of active particles confined to a narrow annular domain. Despite the absence of explicit interactions among the velocities or the active forces of different particles, the system displays a transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-15 Lorenzo Caprini , Claudio Maggi , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Active matter describes materials whose constituents are driven out of equilibrium by continuous energy consumption, for instance from ATP. Due to the orientable character of the constituents, active suspensions can attain liquid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-03 L. N. Carenza , G. Gonnella , G. Negro

We study the stationary states of an over-damped active Brownian particle (ABP) in a harmonic trap in two dimensions, via mathematical calculations and numerical simulations. In addition to translational diffusion, the ABP self-propels with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-27 Urvashi Nakul , Manoj Gopalakrishnan

We study the nonequilibrium stationary state of a one-dimensional inertial run-and-tumble particle (IRTP) trapped in a harmonic potential. We find that the presence of inertia leads to two distinct dynamical scenarios, namely, overdamped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-21 Debraj Dutta , Anupam Kundu , Sanjib Sabhapandit , Urna Basu

The behavior of active matter under confinement poses significant challenges due to the intricate coupling between dynamics near boundaries and those in the bulk. A defining feature of active matter systems is that a substantial portion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Leonid Berlyand , Spencer Dang , Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin , Mykhailo Potomkin

Chiral active Brownian particles (CABPs) are self-propelled agents with intrinsic rotational dynamics, giving rise to circular trajectories commonly observed in biological and synthetic microswimmers. Understanding how CABPs explore…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-25 Sarafa A. Iyaniwura , Mingfeng Qiu , Zhiwei Peng