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Active matter consists of self-propelled elements exhibits fascinating collective motions ranging from biological to artificial systems. Among wide varieties of active matter systems, reconstituted bio-filaments moving on molecular motor…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-25 Sakurako Tanida , Ken'ya Furuta , Kaori Nishikawa , Tetsuya Hiraiwa , Hiroaki Kojima , Kazuhiro Oiwa , Masaki Sano

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

Many biological systems consist of self-motile and passive agents both of which contribute to overall functionality. However, there are very few studies of the properties of such mixtures. Here we formulate a model for mixtures of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-25 Denis F. Hinz , Alexander Panchenko , Tae-Yeon Kim , Eliot Fried

Chiral active matter is predicted to exhibit odd elasticity, with nontraditional elastic response arising from a combination of chirality, being out of equilibrium, and the presence of nonreciprocal interactions. One of the resulting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-10 Sang Hyun Choi , Zhi-Feng Huang , Nigel Goldenfeld

Non-reciprocal interactions in active matter gives rise to a multitude of fascinating phenomena among which are collective oscillatory states without intrinsic particle chirality and active turbulence. Here we show that in a paradigmatic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-09 Chul-Ung Woo , Jae Dong Noh , Heiko Rieger

Activity and renewability are distinctive features of living matter, and constitute a new class of materials that we term renewable active matter. A striking example is the cell cytoskeleton, where myosin filaments bind to the actin…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-27 M. Abhishek , Ankit Dhanuka , Deb Sankar Banerjee , Madan Rao

Unlike biological active matter that constantly adapt to their environment, the motors of synthetic active particles are typically agnostic to their surroundings and merely operate at constant force. Here, we design colloidal active rods…

Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental aspects of many living and engineering systems. Here, the scale of biological agents covers a wide range, from nanomotors, cytoskeleton, and cells, to insects, fish, birds, and people. Inspired…

Active colloidal particles provide versatile model systems for exploring non-equilibrium physics in motile matter. To date, most experimental realizations have focused on spherical particles, largely due to fabrication constraints. However,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-10 Mengshi Wei , Daniela J. Kraft

Active matter has played a pivotal role in advancing our understanding of non-equilibrium systems, leading to a fundamental shift in the study of biophysical phenomena. The foundation of active matter research is built on assumptions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-09 Varun Venkatesh , Niels de Graaf Sousa , Amin Doostmohammadi

Recently, non-reciprocal systems have become a focus of growing interest. Examples occur in soft and active matter, but also in engineered quantum materials and neural (brain) networks. Here, we investigate the impact of non-reciprocity on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-10 Kim L. Kreienkamp , Sabine H. L. Klapp

We numerically examine mixtures of circularly moving and passive disks as a function of density and active orbit radius. For low or intermediate densities and/or small orbit radii, the system can organize into a reversible partially phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-13 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Odd elasticity describes the unusual elastic response of solids whose stress-strain relationship is not compatible with an elastic potential. Here, we present a study of odd elasticity in a driven granular matter system composed of grains…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-01 Rosalind Huang , Rituparno Mandal , Colin Scheibner , Vincenzo Vitelli

Non-reciprocal transmission of motion is potentially highly beneficial to a wide range of applications, ranging from wave guiding, to shock and vibration damping and energy harvesting. To date, large levels of non-reciprocity have been…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Martin Brandenbourger , Xander Locsin , Edan Lerner , Corentin Coulais

This work introduces a new theoretical model for active matter ("complementary-spins" or c-spins), exploring the interplay of positional and orientational order in mobile agents with rotational freedom, divided into two populations with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-20 Alessandro Scirè

Out of equilibrium, the lack of reciprocity is the rule rather than the exception. Non-reciprocal interactions occur, for instance, in networks of neurons, directional growth of interfaces, and synthetic active materials. While wave…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-20 Michel Fruchart , Ryo Hanai , Peter B. Littlewood , Vincenzo Vitelli

Phase transitions are emergent phenomena where microscopic interactions drive a disordered system into a collectively ordered phase. Near the boundary between two phases, the system can exhibit critical, scale-invariant behavior. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Yahel Horowicz , Or Katz , Oren Raz , Ofer Firstenberg

The study of systems with sustained energy uptake and dissipation at the scale of the constituent particles is an area of central interest in nonequilibrium statistical physics. Identifying such systems as a distinct category -- Active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-07 Sriram Ramaswamy

We investigate the ground state phase diagram of hard-core boson system with repulsive two-body and attractive three-body interactions in one-dimensional optic lattice. When these two interactions are comparable and increasing the hopping…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-23 Chen Cheng , Bin-Bin Mao , Fu-Zhou Chen , Hong-Gang Luo

Non-reciprocal systems exhibit diverse dynamical phases whose character depends on the type and degree of non-reciprocity. In this study, we theoretically investigate dynamical structures in a mixture of non-reciprocally aligning polar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-20 Kim L. Kreienkamp , Sabine H. L. Klapp