A particle-resolved rheological study of chirality transfer and odd transport
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| author | Goerlich, Rémi Antonov, Alexander P. Olsen, Kristian Stølevik Caprini, Lorenzo Scholz, Christian Löwen, Hartmut Roichman, Yael |
| author_facet | Goerlich, Rémi Antonov, Alexander P. Olsen, Kristian Stølevik Caprini, Lorenzo Scholz, Christian Löwen, Hartmut Roichman, Yael |
| contents | Chirality, or the breaking of mirror symmetry, appears across all scales in nature, from molecular conformations to the dynamics of bacterial collectives. Environments composed of such symmetry-breaking constituents can give rise to emergent physical phenomena, particularly in the transport and response of embedded tracers. Yet it remains unclear how chiral environments influence such tracers and through which microscopic mechanisms anomalous responses emerge. Here, we present a particle-resolved study of these systems, demonstrating chirality transfer and odd transport of an object embedded in a chiral active bath. In a rheological experiment, a symmetric passive tracer is driven through collisions with the particles of a non-equilibrium chiral bath. Combining table-top experiments, many-body simulations, and a reduced coarse-grained theory, we demonstrate that local collisions transfer chiral active dynamics to the tracer, which displays circular trajectories. We show that the same mechanism gives rise to a systematic transverse drift under a constant pulling force. Crucially, we identify nonlinear friction as an essential factor that rectifies these transferred chiral active fluctuations into a macroscopic odd response. Our results reveal a microscopic mechanism for odd transport in chiral active matter and provide general insights into transverse transport in driven non-equilibrium systems. |
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| spellingShingle | A particle-resolved rheological study of chirality transfer and odd transport Goerlich, Rémi Antonov, Alexander P. Olsen, Kristian Stølevik Caprini, Lorenzo Scholz, Christian Löwen, Hartmut Roichman, Yael Statistical Mechanics Soft Condensed Matter Chirality, or the breaking of mirror symmetry, appears across all scales in nature, from molecular conformations to the dynamics of bacterial collectives. Environments composed of such symmetry-breaking constituents can give rise to emergent physical phenomena, particularly in the transport and response of embedded tracers. Yet it remains unclear how chiral environments influence such tracers and through which microscopic mechanisms anomalous responses emerge. Here, we present a particle-resolved study of these systems, demonstrating chirality transfer and odd transport of an object embedded in a chiral active bath. In a rheological experiment, a symmetric passive tracer is driven through collisions with the particles of a non-equilibrium chiral bath. Combining table-top experiments, many-body simulations, and a reduced coarse-grained theory, we demonstrate that local collisions transfer chiral active dynamics to the tracer, which displays circular trajectories. We show that the same mechanism gives rise to a systematic transverse drift under a constant pulling force. Crucially, we identify nonlinear friction as an essential factor that rectifies these transferred chiral active fluctuations into a macroscopic odd response. Our results reveal a microscopic mechanism for odd transport in chiral active matter and provide general insights into transverse transport in driven non-equilibrium systems. |
| title | A particle-resolved rheological study of chirality transfer and odd transport |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25136 |