Traveling fronts in vibrated polar disks: At the crossroad between polar ordering and jamming

CJ Anderson, O Dauchot, A Fernandez-Nieves - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
We investigate experimentally the collective motion of polar vibrated disks in an annular
geometry, varying both the packing fraction and the amplitude of the angular noise. For low …

Dynamical metastability and re-entrant localization of trapped active elements with speed and orientation fluctuations

M Patel, A Shee, D Chaudhuri - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.22004, 2024 - arxiv.org
We explore the dynamics of active elements performing persistent random motion with
fluctuating active speed and in the presence of translational noise in a $ d $-dimensional …

Fluctuations of driven probes reveal nonequilibrium transitions in complex fluids

D Forastiere, E Locatelli, G Falasco, E Orlandini… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Complex fluids subjected to localized microscopic energy inputs exhibit nonequilibrium
behaviors that remain poorly understood. To identify changes in the fluid's microstructural …

Migration of active particle in mixtures of rigid and flexible rings

MY Li, N Zheng, YW Li - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.02096, 2024 - arxiv.org
The migration of active particles in slowly moving, crowded, and heterogeneous media is
fundamental to various biological processes and technological applications, such as cargo …