2 papers
cond-mat.soft2020
Phases and excitations of active rod-bead mixtures: simulations and experiments
Harsh Soni, Nitin Kumar, Jyothishraj Nambisan +3
We present a large-scale numerical study, supplemented by experimental observations, of a quasi-two-dimensional active system of polar rods and spherical beads confined between two…
cond-mat.soft2018
Trapping and sorting active particles: motility-induced condensation & smectic defects
Nitin Kumar, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Harsh Soni +2
We present an experimental realization of the collective trapping phase transition [Kaiser et al., PRL 108, 268307 (2012)], using motile polar granular rods in the presence of a V-…