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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…

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We study steady-state properties of a suspension of active, nonchiral and chiral, Brownian particles with polar alignment and steric interactions confined within a ring-shaped (annulus) confinement in two dimensions. Exploring possible…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-10 Zahra Fazli , Ali Naji

The non-equilibrium dynamics of individual chiral active particles underpin the complex behavior of chiral active matter. Here we present an exact analytical framework, supported by simulations, to characterize the steady states of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-29 Anweshika Pattanayak , Amir Shee , Debasish Chaudhuri , Abhishek Chaudhuri

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

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

We study a binary mixture of polar chiral (counterclockwise or clockwise) active particles in a two-dimensional box with periodic boundary conditions. Beside the excluded volume interactions between particles, particles are also subject to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-01 Bao-quan Ai , Zhi-gang Shao , Wei-rong Zhong

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

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 study a two-dimensional chiral active crystal composed of underdamped chiral active particles. These particles, characterized by intrinsic handedness and persistence, interact via linear forces derived from harmonic potentials. Chirality…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-25 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Lorenzo Caprini

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

The interplay of chirality, self-propulsion, and spatial confinement generates striking non-equilibrium fluctuations whose higher-order statistics carry information about the dynamics and shape of the position distribution. Here, we present…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-31 Anweshika Pattanayak , Amir Shee , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Debasish Chaudhuri

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

Many microswimmers are inherently chiral, and this chirality can introduce fascinating behaviors in a collection of microswimmers. The dynamics become even more intriguing when two types of microswimmers with distinct chirality are mixed.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Divya Kushwaha , Shradha Mishra

We study experimentally, numerically and analytically, the dynamics of a chiral active particle (cm-sized robots), pulled at a constant translational velocity. We show that the system can be mapped to a Brownian particle driven across a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-26 Juan Pablo Carrillo-Mora , Adrià Garcés , Demian Levis

Self-propelled particles rarely move in straight lines; environmental interactions, shape asymmetry, and intrinsic torques generically induce curved or fluctuating trajectories. In biological and synthetic systems, this curvature often…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-06 Diganta Bhaskar , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Anil Kumar Dasanna

We study the dynamics of a circular passive inclusion, termed a torquer, in a bath of chiral active Brownian particles. Despite being geometrically symmetric and non-motile, the torquer exhibits persistent rotation due to spatially…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-18 Abhra Puitandy , Shradha Mishra

The dynamics of two Brownian particles trapped by two neighboring harmonic potentials in a linear shear flow is investigated. The positional correlation functions in this system are calculated analytically and analyzed as a function of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-08 Jochen Bammert , Lukas Holzer , Walter Zimmermann

Directed motion up a concentration gradient is crucial for the survival and maintenance of numerous biological systems, such as sperms moving towards an egg during fertilization or ciliates moving towards a food source. In these systems,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-01 Bhavesh Valecha , Hossein Vahid , Pietro Luigi Muzzeddu , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Abhinav Sharma

Microorganisms, such as E.Coli, are known to display upstream behavior and respond rheotactically to shear flows. In particular, E.Coli suspensions have been shown to display strong sensitivity to spatial constrictions, leading to an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-24 Armin Maleki , Malihe Ghodrat , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

In this article, results have been presented for the two-time correlation functions for a free and a harmonically confined Brownian particle in a simple shear flow. For a free Brownian particle, the motion along the direction of shear…

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