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| author | Bo, Fan Liu, Shiqi He, Zenghong Joyce, Wyatt Leech, Gregor Tran, Kiet Ramirez, Keilan Boechler, Nicholas Gravish, Nicholas Zhao, Hongbo Tan, Tzer Han |
| author_facet | Bo, Fan Liu, Shiqi He, Zenghong Joyce, Wyatt Leech, Gregor Tran, Kiet Ramirez, Keilan Boechler, Nicholas Gravish, Nicholas Zhao, Hongbo Tan, Tzer Han |
| contents | Nonreciprocal interactions in active matter are known to generate exotic mechanical behaviors such as odd elasticity and odd viscosity. However, these phenomena have largely been studied in isolation, raising a fundamental question: Is there a single system that embodies these distinct regimes of odd matter and can transition between phases, establishing a unified phase diagram for nonreciprocal active matter? To address this, we introduce a tunable robotic active matter platform, the Magnetomechanically Augmented Spinning roBotic (MASBot) collective, in which particle-level control of chirality, activity, and pairwise interactions enables access to distinct phases of odd matter. By continuously increasing repulsive forces relative to attractive and transverse forces, we experimentally map a transition from an odd elastic crystal to an odd viscous liquid, and then to a chiral active gas. We find that this latter phase forms a non-space-filling, nonreciprocal active gas stabilized by long-range hydrodynamic attractive forces, whose statistical signatures are consistent with those of a two-dimensional self-gravitating point vortex gas. Within these phases, adjusting spinning frequency and introducing spatially patterned activity allows us to fine-tune odd mechanical responses and tailor power spectra. Further polar and rotational symmetry breaking at the particle scale leads to novel emergent states such as phase separation and collective translation. Together, our system provides a fundamental experimental testbed for nonequilibrium physics and establishes a blueprint for treating robotic swarms as programmable states of matter, enabling functions that range from resilient structures to adaptive swarm reconfiguration. |
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| spellingShingle | Three phases of odd robotic active matter Bo, Fan Liu, Shiqi He, Zenghong Joyce, Wyatt Leech, Gregor Tran, Kiet Ramirez, Keilan Boechler, Nicholas Gravish, Nicholas Zhao, Hongbo Tan, Tzer Han Soft Condensed Matter Nonreciprocal interactions in active matter are known to generate exotic mechanical behaviors such as odd elasticity and odd viscosity. However, these phenomena have largely been studied in isolation, raising a fundamental question: Is there a single system that embodies these distinct regimes of odd matter and can transition between phases, establishing a unified phase diagram for nonreciprocal active matter? To address this, we introduce a tunable robotic active matter platform, the Magnetomechanically Augmented Spinning roBotic (MASBot) collective, in which particle-level control of chirality, activity, and pairwise interactions enables access to distinct phases of odd matter. By continuously increasing repulsive forces relative to attractive and transverse forces, we experimentally map a transition from an odd elastic crystal to an odd viscous liquid, and then to a chiral active gas. We find that this latter phase forms a non-space-filling, nonreciprocal active gas stabilized by long-range hydrodynamic attractive forces, whose statistical signatures are consistent with those of a two-dimensional self-gravitating point vortex gas. Within these phases, adjusting spinning frequency and introducing spatially patterned activity allows us to fine-tune odd mechanical responses and tailor power spectra. Further polar and rotational symmetry breaking at the particle scale leads to novel emergent states such as phase separation and collective translation. Together, our system provides a fundamental experimental testbed for nonequilibrium physics and establishes a blueprint for treating robotic swarms as programmable states of matter, enabling functions that range from resilient structures to adaptive swarm reconfiguration. |
| title | Three phases of odd robotic active matter |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09897 |