We gratefully acknowledge support from
the Simons Foundation and member institutions.
Full-text links:

Download:

Current browse context:

cond-mat.soft

Change to browse by:

References & Citations

Bookmark

(what is this?)
CiteULike logo BibSonomy logo Mendeley logo del.icio.us logo Digg logo Reddit logo

Condensed Matter > Soft Condensed Matter

Title: Odd mobility of a passive tracer in a chiral active fluid

Abstract: Chiral active fluids break both time-reversal and parity symmetry, leading to exotic transport phenomena unobservable in ordinary passive fluids. We develop a generalized Green-Kubo relation for the anomalous lift experienced by a passive tracer suspended in a two-dimensional chiral active fluid subjected to an applied force. This anomalous lift is characterized by a transport coefficient termed the odd mobility. We validate our generalized response theory using molecular dynamics simulations, and we show that the asymmetric tracer mobility may be understood mechanically in terms of asymmetric deformations of the tracer-fluid density distribution function. We show that the even and odd components of the mobility decay at different rates with tracer size, suggesting the possibility of size-based particle separation using a chiral active working fluid.
Comments: Letter, 6 pages, 3 figures and Supplemental Material, 4 pages, 2 figures
Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.158201
Cite as: arXiv:2211.07003 [cond-mat.soft]
  (or arXiv:2211.07003v2 [cond-mat.soft] for this version)

Submission history

From: Anthony Poggioli [view email]
[v1] Sun, 13 Nov 2022 19:47:33 GMT (1328kb,D)
[v2] Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:49:34 GMT (1973kb,D)

Link back to: arXiv, form interface, contact.