Birotor hydrodynamic microswimmers: From single to collective behaviour(a)

Ripoll, Marisol; Mecke, Joscha

doi:10.1209/0295-5075/acc8f8

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“…If additionally, the 2D fluid layer dissipates momentum into a frictious substrate with linear friction coefficient Γ, the right-hand side of equation (7a) then has to be balanced by the friction term −Γv α . This is especially of interest in numerical or analytical studies of true two-dimensional systems with vanishing Reynolds number to prevent the occurrence of unphysical behaviour resulting from the negligence of small but finite inertia terms, similar to the Stokes' paradox [83,84].…”

Section: Antisymmetric and Odd Stresses In Chiral Active Mattermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When a system shows density fluctuations with λ > d and a structure factor S q→0 = 0, then the system is said to be hyperuniform and the particles are distributed more uniformly in comparison to disordered systems [148]. Typically, active matter systems show vivid collective dynamics accompanied by large density fluctuations [83,[149][150][151]. However, recently, chiral active fluids have been shown to exhibit hyperuniformity [30,146,148,152], leading to the suppression of large-scale density fluctuations similar to crystals, while a liquid like local isotropic behaviour is retained [30].…”

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Emergent phenomena in chiral active matter

Mecke,

Nketsiah,

et al. 2024

NSO

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Section: Antisymmetric and Odd Stresses In Chiral Active Mattermentioning

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Emergent phenomena in chiral active matter

Mecke,

Nketsiah,

et al. 2024

NSO

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Simultaneous emergence of active turbulence and odd viscosity in a colloidal chiral active system

Mecke,

Gao,

Ramírez Medina

et al. 2023

Commun Phys

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Active fluids display collective phenomena such as active turbulence or odd viscosity, which refer to spontaneous complex and transverse flow. The simultaneous emergence of these seemingly separate phenomena is here reported in experiment for a chiral active fluid composed of a carpet of standing and spinning colloidal rods, and in simulations for synchronously rotating hard discs in a hydrodynamic explicit solvent. Experiments and simulations reveal that multi-scale eddies emerge, a hallmark of active turbulence, with a power-law decay of the kinetic-energy spectrum, a feature of self-similar dynamics. Moreover, the particles are dragged to the centre of the vortices, a telltale sign of odd viscosity. The weak compressibility of the system enables an explicit measurement of the odd viscosity in bulk via the relation between local vorticity and excess density. Our findings are relevant for the understanding of biological systems and for the design of microrobots with collective self-organized behavior.

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EPL Focus Issue on Statistical Physics of Self-Propelled Colloids Editorial

2023

EPL

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Micron-sized particles equipped with their own motorization have been a topic of intense recent research in physics. These mesoscopic active entities can harness and harvest energy from the environment and are therefore important as carriers of drugs and cargos. Their motion is governed by the laws of nonequilibrium physics. Well-characterized self-propelled colloids are ideal model systems to study the underlying novel concepts of nonequilibrium statistical physics in a quantitative and systematic way. While different self-propulsion mechanisms for a single colloidal particle in a surrounding bulk fluid are by now well understood, new research has considered such particles in a heterogenous and complex environment and also focussed on many-body systems. A wealth of new nonequilibrium structures and patterns has been discovered which are much richer than those of their equilibrium counterparts. Moreover, an important step is to equip the particles with more "intelligence" such that they can sense stimuli, learn to react to those and perform simple tasks in an optimized way. Complementary work involving laboratory experiments of well-controlled model systems, computer simulations, and a broad spectrum of theoretical methods from statistical physics have provided important new insights in this interdisciplinary research area.This Focus Issue of EPL includes one perspective article [1] and 17 research letters [2-18] all centered around statistical physics of self-propelled colloids.Most of the papers are based on computer simulations of model systems [2-18], some of them include statistical theories, e.g., [2,5,7,9,14], one is experimental [2]. This somehow reflects the proportion in current research on active matter where most of the papers are dealing with simulations of model systems and there are fewer papers on fundamental microscopic nonequilibrium theories (as here in ref. [5]) and even fewer on particle-resolved experiments. But it is important to mention that many experiments on active matter go hand-in-hand with current theories and simulations as documented here in [1,2,17].In terms of topics, most of the papers have to do with active colloids in complex environments. Such an environment can be represented by an external field with a Hamiltonian potential. The simplest case treated here is an external harmonic potential [2,4] but it can be systematically made more complicated including periodic obstacle matrices [3] or corrugated channels [7]. External potentials can be applied with programmed feedback, which produces memory effects, a model for that is studied in depth here [6]. Next a motility landscape can provide a complex environment as well, two cases of which are considered in this special issue, namely a motility ratchet [12] and traveling activity wave [14]. Third, the active colloids can move in a non-Newtonian complex solvent such as a viscoelastic fluid as considered here in [11]. Finally the fluctuations of the environment can be anomalous and nonthermal, interesting examples are provided her...

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Birotor hydrodynamic microswimmers: From single to collective behaviour(a)

Cited by 3 publications

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Emergent phenomena in chiral active matter

Emergent phenomena in chiral active matter

Simultaneous emergence of active turbulence and odd viscosity in a colloidal chiral active system

EPL Focus Issue on Statistical Physics of Self-Propelled Colloids Editorial

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