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Shee A, Henkes S, Huepe C. Emergent mesoscale correlations in active solids with noisy chiral dynamics. SOFT MATTER 2024. [PMID: 39315646 DOI: 10.1039/d4sm00958d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/25/2024]
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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 analytically the velocity correlations and energy spectra under different conditions, showing an excellent agreement with simulations. We generate the corresponding phase diagram, identifying chiral and achiral disordered regimes (for high chirality or noise levels), as well as chiral and achiral states with mesoscopic-range order (for low chirality and noise). The chiral ordered states display mesoscopic spatial correlations and oscillating time correlations, but no wave propagation. In the high chirality regime, we find a peak in the elastic energy spectrum that leads to a non-monotonic behavior with increasing noise strength that is consistent with the emergence of the 'hammering state' recently identified in chiral glasses. Finally, we show numerically that our theory, despite its linear response nature, can be applied beyond the idealized homogeneous solid assumed in our derivations. Indeed, by increasing the level of activity, we show that it remains a good approximation of the system dynamics until just below the melting transition. In addition, we show that there is still an excellent agreement between our analytical results and simulations when we extend our results to heterogeneous solids composed of mixtures of active particles with different intrinsic chirality and noise levels. The derived linear response theory is therefore robust and applicable to a broad range of real-world active systems. Our work provides a thorough analytical and numerical description of the emergent states in a densely packed system of chiral self-propelled Brownian disks, thus allowing a detailed understanding of the phases and dynamics identified in a minimal chiral active system.
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- Amir Shee
- Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems and ESAM, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, LION, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9504, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
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- Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems and ESAM, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
- School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- CHuepe Labs, 2713 West August Blvd #1, Chicago, IL 60622, USA.
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Maire R, Plati A. Enhancing (quasi-)long-range order in a two-dimensional driven crystal. J Chem Phys 2024; 161:054902. [PMID: 39087549 DOI: 10.1063/5.0217958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2024] [Accepted: 07/14/2024] [Indexed: 08/02/2024] Open
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It has been recently shown that 2D systems can exhibit crystalline phases with long-range translational order showcasing a striking violation of the Hohenberg-Mermin-Wagner (HMW) theorem, which is valid at equilibrium. This is made possible by athermal driving mechanisms that inject energy into the system without exciting long wavelength modes of the density field, thereby inducing hyperuniformity. However, as thermal fluctuations are superimposed on the non-equilibrium driving, long-range translational order is inevitably lost. Here, we discuss the possibility of exploiting non-equilibrium effects to suppress arbitrarily large density fluctuations even when a global thermal bath is coupled to the system. We introduce a model of a harmonic crystal driven both by a global thermal bath and by a momentum conserving noise, where the typical observables related to density fluctuations and long-range translational order can be analytically derived and put in relation. This model allows us to rationalize the violation of the HMW theorem observed in previous studies through the prediction of large-wavelength phonons, which thermalize at a vanishing effective temperature when the global bath is switched off. The conceptual framework introduced through this theory is then applied to numerical simulations of a hard-disk solid in contact with a thermal bath and driven out-of-equilibrium by active collisions. Our numerical analysis demonstrates how varying driving and dissipative parameters can lead to an arbitrary enhancement of the quasi-long-range order in the system regardless of the applied global noise amplitude. Finally, we outline a possible experimental procedure to apply our results to a realistic granular system.
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- R Maire
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, 91405 Orsay, France
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Ikeda H, Kuroda Y. Continuous symmetry breaking of low-dimensional systems driven by inhomogeneous oscillatory driving forces. Phys Rev E 2024; 110:024140. [PMID: 39295011 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.110.024140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 08/06/2024] [Indexed: 09/21/2024]
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The driving forces of chiral active particles and deformations of cells are often modeled by spatially inhomogeneous but temporally periodic driving forces. Such inhomogeneous oscillatory driving forces have only recently been proposed in the context of active matter, and their effects on the systems are not yet fully understood. In this work, we theoretically study the impact of spatially inhomogeneous oscillatory driving forces on continuous symmetry breaking. We first analyze the linear model for the soft modes in the ordered phase to derive the lower critical dimension of the model, and then analyze the spherical model to investigate more detailed phase behaviors. Interestingly, our analysis reveals that symmetry breaking occurs even in one and two dimensions, where the Hohenberg-Mermin-Wagner theorem prohibits continuous symmetry breaking in equilibrium. Furthermore, fluctuations of conserved quantities, such as density, are anomalously suppressed in the long-wavelength, i.e., show hyperuniformity.
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Libet PA, Yakovlev EV, Kryuchkov NP, Simkin IV, Sapelkin AV, Yurchenko SO. Tunable colloidal spinners: Active chirality and hydrodynamic interactions governed by rotating external electric fields. J Chem Phys 2024; 161:044903. [PMID: 39056393 DOI: 10.1063/5.0210859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2024] [Accepted: 07/10/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024] Open
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The rotational dynamics of microparticles in liquids have a wide range of applications, including chemical microreactors, biotechnologies, microfluidic devices, tunable heat and mass transfer, and fundamental understanding of chiral active soft matter which refers to systems composed of particles that exhibit a handedness in their rotation, breaking mirror symmetry at the microscopic level. Here, we report on the study of two effects in colloids in rotating electric fields: (i) the rotation of individual colloidal particles in rotating electric field and related to that (ii) precession of pairs of particles. We show that the mechanism responsible for the rotation of individual particles is related to the time lag between the external field applied to the particle and the particle polarization. Using numerical simulations and experiments with silica particles in a water-based solvent, we prove that the observed rotation of particle pairs and triplets is governed by the tunable rotation of individual particles and can be explained and described by the action of hydrodynamic forces. Our findings demonstrate that colloidal suspensions in rotating electric fields, under some conditions, represent a novel class of chiral soft active matter-tunable colloidal spinners. The experiments and the corresponding theoretical framework we developed open novel prospects for future studies of these systems and for their potential applications.
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- Pavel A Libet
- Centre for Soft Matter and Physics of Fluids, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia
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- Centre for Soft Matter and Physics of Fluids, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia
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- Centre for Soft Matter and Physics of Fluids, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia
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- Centre for Soft Matter and Physics of Fluids, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, England
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- Centre for Soft Matter and Physics of Fluids, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia
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Liu Y, Chen D, Tian J, Xu W, Jiao Y. Universal Hyperuniform Organization in Looped Leaf Vein Networks. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 133:028401. [PMID: 39073952 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.133.028401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/06/2024] [Indexed: 07/31/2024]
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The leaf vein network is a hierarchical vascular system that transports water and nutrients to the leaf cells. The thick primary veins form a branched network, while the secondary veins can develop closed loops forming a well-defined cellular structure. Through extensive analysis of a variety of distinct leaf species, we discover that the apparently disordered cellular structures of the secondary vein networks exhibit a universal hyperuniform organization and possess a hidden order on large scales. Disorder hyperuniform systems lack conventional long-range order, yet they completely suppress normalized infinite-wavelength density fluctuations like crystals. Specifically, we find that the distributions of the geometric centers associated with the vein network loops possess a vanishing static structure factor in the limit that the wave number k goes to 0, i.e., S(k)∼k^{α}, where α≈0.64±0.021, providing an example of class III hyperuniformity in biology. This hyperuniform organization leads to superior efficiency of diffusive transport, as evidenced by the much faster convergence of the time-dependent spreadability S(t) to its longtime asymptotic limit, compared to that of other uncorrelated or correlated disordered but nonhyperuniform organizations. Our results also have implications for the discovery and design of novel disordered network materials with optimal transport properties.
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- Institute of Solid Mechanics, College of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, People's Republic of China
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Backofen R, Altawil AYA, Salvalaglio M, Voigt A. Nonequilibrium hyperuniform states in active turbulence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2320719121. [PMID: 38848299 PMCID: PMC11181138 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2320719121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 05/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/09/2024] Open
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We demonstrate that the complex spatiotemporal structure in active fluids can feature characteristics of hyperuniformity. Using a hydrodynamic model, we show that the transition from hyperuniformity to nonhyperuniformity and antihyperuniformity depends on the strength of active forcing and can be related to features of active turbulence without and with scaling characteristics of inertial turbulence. Combined with identified signatures of Levy walks and nonuniversal diffusion in these systems, this allows for a biological interpretation and the speculation of nonequilibrium hyperuniform states in active fluids as optimal states with respect to robustness and strategies of evasion and foraging.
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- Rainer Backofen
- Institute of Scientific Computing, Faculty of Mathematics, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden01062
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- Institute of Scientific Computing, Faculty of Mathematics, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden01062
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- Institute of Scientific Computing, Faculty of Mathematics, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden01062
- Dresden Centre for Computational Materials Science, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Scientific Computing, Faculty of Mathematics, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden01062
- Dresden Centre for Computational Materials Science, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062Dresden, Germany
- Center of Systems Biology Dresden, 01307Dresden, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence, Physics of Life, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307Dresden, Germany
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Ai BQ, Guo RX, Zeng CH, He YF. Rotational inertia-induced glassy transition in chiral particle systems. Phys Rev E 2024; 109:064902. [PMID: 39020947 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.109.064902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2024] [Accepted: 05/12/2024] [Indexed: 07/20/2024]
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The dense active matter exhibits characteristics reminiscent of traditional glassy phenomena, yet the role of rotational inertia in glass dynamics remains elusive. In this study, we investigate the glass dynamics of chiral active particles influenced by rotational inertia. Rotational inertia endows exponential memory to particle orientation, restricting its alteration and amplifying the effective persistence time. At lower spinning frequencies, the diffusion coefficient exhibits a peak function relative to rotational inertia for shorter persistence times, while it steadily increases with rotational inertia for longer persistence times. In the realm of high-frequency spinning, the impact of rotational inertia on diffusion behavior becomes more pronounced, resulting in a nonmonotonic and intricate relationship between the diffusion coefficient and rotational inertia. Consequently, the introduction of rotational inertia significantly alters the glassy dynamics of chiral active particles, allowing for the control over transitions between fluid and glassy states by modulating rotational inertia. Moreover, our findings indicate that at a specific spinning temperature, there exists an optimal spinning frequency at which the diffusion coefficient attains its maximum value.
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- Bao-Quan Ai
- Key Laboratory of Atomic and Subatomic Structure and Quantum Control (Ministry of Education), and School of Physics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Engineering and Quantum Materials, and Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory of Quantum Matter, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Key Laboratory of Atomic and Subatomic Structure and Quantum Control (Ministry of Education), and School of Physics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Engineering and Quantum Materials, and Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory of Quantum Matter, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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Zhuang H, Chen D, Liu L, Keeney D, Zhang G, Jiao Y. Vibrational properties of disordered stealthy hyperuniform 1D atomic chains. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2024; 36:285703. [PMID: 38579735 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ad3b5c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2024] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/07/2024]
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Disorder hyperuniformity is a recently discovered exotic state of many-body systems that possess a hidden order in between that of a perfect crystal and a completely disordered system. Recently, this novel disordered state has been observed in a number of quantum materials including amorphous 2D graphene and silica, which are endowed with unexpected electronic transport properties. Here, we numerically investigate 1D atomic chain models, including perfect crystalline, disordered stealthy hyperuniform (SHU) as well as randomly perturbed atom packing configurations to obtain a quantitative understanding of how the unique SHU disorder affects the vibrational properties of these low-dimensional materials. We find that the disordered SHU chains possess lower cohesive energies compared to the randomly perturbed chains, implying their potential reliability in experiments. Our inverse partition ratio (IPR) calculations indicate that the SHU chains can support fully delocalized states just like perfect crystalline chains over a wide range of frequencies, i.e.ω∈(0,100)cm-1, suggesting superior phonon transport behaviors within these frequencies, which was traditionally considered impossible in disordered systems. Interestingly, we observe the emergence of a group of highly localized states associated withω∼200cm-1, which is characterized by a significant peak in the IPR and a peak in phonon density of states at the corresponding frequency, and is potentially useful for decoupling electron and phonon degrees of freedom. These unique properties of disordered SHU chains have implications in the design and engineering of novel quantum materials for thermal and phononic applications.
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- Houlong Zhuang
- School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, United States of America
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- Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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- School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, United States of America
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- School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, People's Republic of China
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- School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, United States of America
- Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, United States of America
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Chen J, Lei X, Xiang Y, Duan M, Peng X, Zhang HP. Emergent Chirality and Hyperuniformity in an Active Mixture with Nonreciprocal Interactions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 132:118301. [PMID: 38563944 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.118301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2023] [Revised: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 02/26/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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We investigate collective dynamics in a binary mixture of programmable robots in experiments and simulations. While robots of the same species align their motion direction, interaction between species is distinctly nonreciprocal: species A aligns with B and species B antialigns with A. This nonreciprocal interaction gives rise to the emergence of collective chiral motion that can be stabilized by limiting the robot angular speed to be below a threshold. Within the chiral phase, increasing the robot density or extending the range of local repulsive interactions can drive the system through an absorbing-active transition. At the transition point, the robots exhibit a remarkable capacity for self-organization, forming disordered hyperuniform states.
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- Jianchao Chen
- School of Physics and Astronomy, Institute of Natural Sciences and MOE-LSC, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, and MOE Key Lab for Intelligent Networks and Network Security, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
- College of Information and Control Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an, 710055, China
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- School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710072, China
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- College of Information and Control Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an, 710055, China
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- School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710072, China
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Institute of Natural Sciences and MOE-LSC, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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Ikeda H. Correlated noise and critical dimensions. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:064119. [PMID: 38243493 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.064119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/15/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2024]
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In equilibrium, the Mermin-Wagner theorem prohibits the continuous symmetry breaking for all dimensions d≤2. In this work, we discuss that this limitation can be circumvented in nonequilibrium systems driven by the spatiotemporally long-range anticorrelated noise. We first compute the lower and upper critical dimensions of the O(n) model driven by the spatiotemporally correlated noise by means of the dimensional analysis. Next we consider the spherical model, which corresponds to the large-n limit of the O(n) model and allows us to compute the critical dimensions and critical exponents, analytically. Both results suggest that the critical dimensions increase when the noise is positively correlated in space and time and decrease when anticorrelated. We also report that the spherical model with the correlated noise shows the hyperuniformity and giant number fluctuation even well above the critical point.
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- Harukuni Ikeda
- Department of Physics, Gakushuin University, 1-5-1 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8588, Japan
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Lei Y, Ni R. How does a hyperuniform fluid freeze? Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2312866120. [PMID: 37988461 PMCID: PMC10691242 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2312866120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 11/23/2023] Open
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All phase transitions can be categorized into two different types: continuous and discontinuous phase transitions. Discontinuous phase transitions are normally accompanied with significant structural changes, and nearly all of them have the kinetic pathway of nucleation and growth, if the system does not suffer from glassy dynamics. Here, in a system of barrier-controlled reactive particles, we find that the discontinuous freezing transition of a nonequilibrium hyperuniform fluid into an absorbing state does not have the kinetic pathway of nucleation and growth, and the transition is triggered by long-wavelength fluctuations. The transition rate decreases with increasing the system size, which suggests that the metastable hyperuniform fluid could be kinetically stable in an infinitely large system. This challenges the common understanding of metastability in discontinuous phase transitions. Moreover, we find that the "metastable yet kinetically stable" hyperuniform fluid features a scaling in the structure factor [Formula: see text] in 2D, which is the third dynamic hyperuniform state in addition to the critical hyperuniform state with [Formula: see text] and the nonequilibrium hyperuniform fluid with [Formula: see text].
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- Yusheng Lei
- School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore637459, Singapore
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- School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore637459, Singapore
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Siebers F, Jayaram A, Blümler P, Speck T. Exploiting compositional disorder in collectives of light-driven circle walkers. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eadf5443. [PMID: 37058561 PMCID: PMC10104457 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf5443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2022] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Emergent behavior in collectives of "robotic" units with limited capabilities that is robust and programmable is a promising route to perform tasks on the micro and nanoscale that are otherwise difficult to realize. However, a comprehensive theoretical understanding of the physical principles, in particular steric interactions in crowded environments, is still largely missing. Here, we study simple light-driven walkers propelled through internal vibrations. We demonstrate that their dynamics is well captured by the model of active Brownian particles, albeit with an angular speed that differs between individual units. Transferring to a numerical model, we show that this polydispersity of angular speeds gives rise to specific collective behavior: self-sorting under confinement and enhancement of translational diffusion. Our results show that, while naively perceived as imperfection, disorder of individual properties can provide another route to realize programmable active matter.
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Omar AK, Klymko K, GrandPre T, Geissler PL, Brady JF. Tuning nonequilibrium phase transitions with inertia. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:074904. [PMID: 36813709 DOI: 10.1063/5.0138256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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In striking contrast to equilibrium systems, inertia can profoundly alter the structure of active systems. Here, we demonstrate that driven systems can exhibit effective equilibrium-like states with increasing particle inertia, despite rigorously violating the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. Increasing inertia progressively eliminates motility-induced phase separation and restores equilibrium crystallization for active Brownian spheres. This effect appears to be general for a wide class of active systems, including those driven by deterministic time-dependent external fields, whose nonequilibrium patterns ultimately disappear with increasing inertia. The path to this effective equilibrium limit can be complex, with finite inertia sometimes acting to accentuate nonequilibrium transitions. The restoration of near equilibrium statistics can be understood through the conversion of active momentum sources to passive-like stresses. Unlike truly equilibrium systems, the effective temperature is now density dependent, the only remnant of the nonequilibrium dynamics. This density-dependent temperature can in principle introduce departures from equilibrium expectations, particularly in response to strong gradients. Our results provide additional insight into the effective temperature ansatz while revealing a mechanism to tune nonequilibrium phase transitions.
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- Ahmad K Omar
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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Chen Y, Wang L, Zhang TH. Tunable collective dynamics of ellipsoidal Quincke particles. SOFT MATTER 2023; 19:512-518. [PMID: 36541151 DOI: 10.1039/d2sm01238c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Collective behaviors in active systems become dramatically complicated in the presence of chirality. In this study, we show that ellipsoidal Quincke particles driven by an electric field exhibit flexible and tunable chirality because of the tilting of the spinning axis. As the tilting torque decreases with the increase of angular speed, the motion of individual particles transforms from localized circle motion to global rolling. However, because of the anisotropic shape and the resulting anisotropic polar interactions, it is dynamically easier for ellipsoids to bind and form rotating structures rather than to align their velocities. In dense systems, the suppression of velocity aligning produces transient dense clusters which produce dynamic heterogeneity. The formation and dissociation of dense clusters prohibit the emergence of large-scale collective motions and limit the amplitude of density fluctuations. These findings demonstrate that collective dynamics and thus the scale of density fluctuations in active systems with tunable chirality can be well controlled. This has potential applications in exploring disordered hyperuniform states.
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- Yu Chen
- Center for Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Interdisciplinary Research, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, P. R. China.
- School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, P. R. China
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- Center for Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Interdisciplinary Research, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, P. R. China.
- School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, P. R. China
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- Center for Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Interdisciplinary Research, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, P. R. China.
- School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, P. R. China
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Wang H, Torquato S. Equilibrium states corresponding to targeted hyperuniform nonequilibrium pair statistics. SOFT MATTER 2023; 19:550-564. [PMID: 36546870 DOI: 10.1039/d2sm01294d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The Zhang-Torquato conjecture [G. Zhang and S. Torquato, Phys. Rev. E, 2020, 101, 032124.] states that any realizable pair correlation function g2(r) or structure factor S(k) of a translationally invariant nonequilibrium system can be attained by an equilibrium ensemble involving only (up to) effective two-body interactions. To further test and study this conjecture, we consider two singular nonequilibrium models of recent interest that also have the exotic hyperuniformity property: a 2D "perfect glass" and a 3D critical absorbing-state model. We find that each nonequilibrium target can be achieved accurately by equilibrium states with effective one- and two-body potentials, lending further support to the conjecture. To characterize the structural degeneracy of such a nonequilibrium-equilibrium correspondence, we compute higher-order statistics for both models, as well as those for a hyperuniform 3D uniformly randomized lattice (URL), whose higher-order statistics can be very precisely ascertained. Interestingly, we find that the differences in the higher-order statistics between nonequilibrium and equilibrium systems with matching pair statistics, as measured by the "hole" probability distribution, provide measures of the degree to which a system is out of equilibrium. We show that all three systems studied possess the bounded-hole property and that holes near the maximum hole size in the URL are much rarer than those in the underlying simple cubic lattice. Remarkably, upon quenching, the effective potentials for all three systems possess local energy minima (i.e., inherent structures) with stronger forms of hyperuniformity compared to their target counterparts. Our methods are expected to facilitate the self-assembly of tunable hyperuniform soft-matter systems.
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- Haina Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08544, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton Institute of Materials, and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08544, USA
- School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.
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Casiulis M, Levine D. Emergent synchronization and flocking in purely repulsive self-navigating particles. Phys Rev E 2022; 106:044611. [PMID: 36397598 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.044611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
Inspired by groups of animals and robots, we study the collective dynamics of large numbers of active particles, each one trying to get to its own randomly placed target, while avoiding collisions with each other. The particles we study are repulsive homing active Brownian particles, self-propelled particles whose orientation relaxes at a finite rate towards an absorbing target in two-dimensional continuous space. For a wide range of parameters, these particles form synchronized system-wide chiral flocks, in spite of the absence of explicit alignment interactions. We show that this dramatic behavior obtains for different system sizes and density, that it is robust against the addition of noise, polydispersity, and bounding walls, and that it can exhibit dynamical topological defects. We develop an analogy to an off-lattice, ferromagnetic XY model, which allows us to interpret the different phases, as well as the topological defects.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mathias Casiulis
- Department of Physics, Technion-IIT, 32000 Haifa, Israel
- Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
- Center for Soft Matter Research, Department of Physics, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
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- Department of Physics, Technion-IIT, 32000 Haifa, Israel
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