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The diffusion of micro- and nanoswimmers in a fluid, confined within irregular structures that impose entropic barriers, is often modeled using overdamped active Brownian dynamics, where viscous effects are paramount and inertia is…

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Charge and spin dynamics is addressed in chiral molecules immediately after the instantaneous coupling to an external metallic reservoir. It is shown how a spin-polarization is induced in the chiral structure as a response to the charge…

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Chirality, or the breaking of mirror symmetry, appears across all scales in nature, from molecular conformations to the dynamics of bacterial collectives. Environments composed of such symmetry-breaking constituents can give rise to…

We present the linear response theory for an elastic solid composed of active Brownian particles with intrinsic individual chirality, deriving both a normal mode formulation and a continuum elastic formulation. Using this theory, we compute…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-21 Amir Shee , Silke Henkes , Cristián Huepe

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

Chase-and-run dynamics, in which one population pursues another that flees from it, are found throughout nature, from predator-prey interactions in ecosystems to the collective motion of cells during development. Intriguingly, in many of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-25 Thomas Jun Jewell , Andrew L. Krause , Philip K. Maini , Eamonn A. Gaffney

We study the dynamics of a chirality reversing active Brownian particle, which models the chirality reversing active motion common in many microorganisms and microswimmers. We show that, for such a motion, the presence of the two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-22 Santanu Das , Urna Basu

We investigate the persistence probability of a Brownian particle in a harmonic potential, which decays to zero at long times -- leading to an unbounded motion of the Brownian particle. We consider two functional forms for the decay of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-26 D. Chakraborty

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

Chiral active matter is enjoying a rapid increase of interest, spurred by the rich variety of asymmetries that can be attained in e.g. the shape or self-propulsion mechanism of active particles. Though this has already led to the observance…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-15 Vincent E. Debets , Hartmut Löwen , Liesbeth M. C. Janssen

The dynamics of an active walker in a harmonic potential is studied experimentally, numerically and theoretically. At odds with usual models of self-propelled particles, we identify two dynamical states for which the particle condensates at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-20 Olivier Dauchot , Vincent Démery

We study a dense colloidal suspension confined between two quasiparallel glass plates as a model system for a supercooled liquid in confined geometries. We directly observe the three-dimensional Brownian motion of the colloidal particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-06-01 Kazem V. Edmond , Carolyn R. Nugent , Eric R. Weeks

Hydrodynamic interactions can generate rich emergent structures in active matter systems. Using large-scale hydrodynamic simulations, we demonstrate that hydrodynamic coupling alone can drive spontaneous self-organization across a hierarchy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-17 Zaiyi Shen , Leilei Wang , Shishuang Zhang , Chenlu Li , Kaili Xie , Xu Zheng , Juho S. Lintuvuori

Brownian motion of colloidal particles in the quasi-two-dimensional (qTD) confinement displays distinct kinetic characters from that in bulk. Here we experimentally report a dynamic evolution of Brownian particles in the qTD system. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-08-15 Jun Ma , Guangyin Jing

We use continuum theory to show that chirality is a key thermodynamic control parameter for the aggregation of biopolymers: chirality produces a stable disperse phase of hexagonal bundles under moderately poor solvent conditions, as has…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Gregory M. Grason , Robijn F. Bruinsma

To understand the relationship between the chirality of individual cells and that of tissues and organisms, we have developed a chiral polarized particle model to investigate the movement of cell populations on substrates. Our model…

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Clustering is one of the mayor collective phenomena observed in active matter. We study the overdamped motion of interacting active Brownian particles in two dimensions. An instability in the pair correlation function causes the onset of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-18 Rüdiger Kürsten

We show that spontaneous density segregation in dense systems of aligning circle swimmers is a condensation phenomenon at odds with the phase separation scenarios usually observed in two-dimensional active matter. The condensates, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-20 Yujia Wang , Bruno Ventéjou , Hugues Chaté , Xia-qing Shi

We study the statistical properties of a non-Markovian chiral run-and-tumble particle (CRTP) in two dimensions in continuous space and time. In our model, the possible orientations of the particle correspond to the four cardinal directions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-13 Rahul Mallikarjun , Arnab Pal

Recent experiments on monolayers of spindle-like cells plated on adhesive stripe-shaped domains have provided a convincing demonstration that certain types of collective phenomena in epithelia are well described by active nematic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-22 Ludwig A. Hoffmann , Koen Schakenraad , Roeland M. H. Merks , Luca Giomi