Nonequilibrium Dynamics at Cellular Interfaces: Insights From Simulation and Theory

Z Jiao, L Gao, X Jin, J Li, Y Wang… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Active matters, which consume energy to exert mechanical forces, include molecular motors,
synthetic nanomachines, actively propelled bacteria, and viruses. A series of unique …

Dance of odd-diffusive particles: A Fourier approach

A Langer, A Sharma, R Metzler, E Kalz - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Odd-diffusive systems are characterized by transverse responses and exhibit
unconventional behaviors in interacting systems. To address the dynamical interparticle …

Field theory of active chiral hard disks: A first-principles approach to steric interactions

E Kalz, A Sharma, R Metzler - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
A first-principles approach for active chiral hard disks is presented, that explicitly accounts
for steric interactions on the two-body level. We derive an effective one-body equation for the …

Anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles

FJ Sevilla, G Chacón-Acosta… - Journal of Physics A …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The transport equation of active motion is generalised to consider time-fractional dynamics
to describe the anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles. In the present study, we …

Spontaneous separation of attractive chiral mixtures

J Li, R Guo, B Ai - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
The separation of chiral matter has garnered significant attention due to its wide-ranging
applications in biological and chemical processes. In prior researches, particle interactions …

Collective motion of binary chiral particle mixtures with environmental complex noise

J Huang, ZG Shao - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
The strategies for demixing and sorting mixed-chirality particles are crucial in the
biochemical and pharmaceutical industries. However, whether chiral mixed particles can …

Interplay of chemotactic force, Péclet number, and dimensionality dictates the dynamics of auto-chemotactic chiral active droplets

CW Chan, Z Yang, Z Gan, R Zhang - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In living and synthetic active matter systems, the constituents can self-propel and interact
with each other and with the environment through various physicochemical mechanisms …

Particle chirality does not matter in the large-scale features of strong turbulence

G Piumini, MPA Assen, D Lohse… - Journal of fluid …, 2024 - cambridge.org
We use three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of homogeneous isotropic
turbulence in a cubic domain to investigate the dynamics of heavy, chiral, finite-size inertial …

Self-diffusion anomalies of an odd tracer in soft-core media

PL Muzzeddu, E Kalz, A Gambassi, A Sharma… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Odd-diffusive systems, characterised by broken time-reversal and/or parity symmetry, have
recently been shown to display counterintuitive features such as interaction-enhanced …

Polarization and dynamic phases of aligning active matter in periodic obstacle arrays

D Canavello, C Reichhardt, CJ Reichhardt… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We numerically examine a system of monodisperse self-propelled particles interacting with
each other via simple steric forces and aligning torques moving through a periodic array of …