activity
20142026
most citedExtreme active matter at high densities

100 citations · 502 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

28 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Elasticity-mediated Morphogenesis in Interfacial Colloidal Assemblies

Vaibhav Raj Singh Parmar, Sayantan Chanda, Rituparno Mandal +1

We study the self-assembly of colloidal microgel particles at a quasi-two-dimensional air-water interface of a drying droplet. Using bright-field microscopy, we demonstrate that in…

cond-mat.soft2026

The Jammed Phase of Infinitely Persistent Active Matter

M. C. Gandikota, Rituparno Mandal, Pinaki Chaudhuri +2

We study an extreme active matter system, which is essentially a dense assembly of athermal, soft and infinitely persistent active particles. Using extensive numerical simulations…

cond-mat.soft2025

Reentrant melting of scarred odd crystals by self-shear

Uttam Tiwari, Pragya Arora, A K Sood +3

Spatial confinement can induce geometrical frustration in condensed phases, giving rise to topological defects that confer materials with new and exotic properties. Here, we experi…

cond-mat.soft2025

Trainable amorphous matter: tuning yielding by mechanical annealing

Maitri Mandal, Pappu Acharya, Rituparno Mandal +1

Living organisms can demonstrate highly adaptable and sophisticated responses using memory resulting from repeated exposure to external conditions or training. However, realizing s…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Effects of Non-reciprocity on Coupled Kuramoto Oscillators

Shaon Mandal Chakraborty, Bibhut Sahoo, Peter Sollich +1

All the fundamental interactions (such as gravity or electromagnetic interactions) are reciprocal in nature. However, in the macroscopic world, in particular outside equilibrium, n…

cond-mat.soft2025

Nonreciprocal Model B: The role of mobilities and nonreciprocal interfacial forces

Bibhut Sahoo, Rituparno Mandal, Peter Sollich

We study a non-reciprocal version of Model B, as the continuum theory for non-reciprocal particle mixtures. In contrast to non-reciprocal Cahn-Hilliard models, it is important in t…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 3 cited

Kovacs-like memory effect in a sheared colloidal glass: role of non-affine flows

Maitri Mandal, Abhishek Ghadai, Rituparno Mandal +1

Memory effect reflects a system's ability to encode, retain and retrieve information about its past. Such effects are essentially an out-of-equilibrium phenomenon providing insight…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 1 cited

Learning dynamical behaviors in physical systems

Rituparno Mandal, Rosalind Huang, Michel Fruchart +4

Physical learning is an emerging paradigm in science and engineering whereby (meta)materials acquire desired macroscopic behaviors by exposure to examples. So far, it has been appl…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 1 cited

Odd elasticity in driven granular matter

Rosalind Huang, Rituparno Mandal, Colin Scheibner +1

Odd elasticity describes the unusual elastic response of solids whose stress-strain relationship is not compatible with an elastic potential. Here, we present a study of odd elasti…

cond-mat.soft2023

Long-range Velocity Correlations from Active Dopants

Leila Abbaspour, Rituparno Mandal, Peter Sollich +1

One of the most remarkable observations in dense active matter systems is the appearance of long-range velocity correlations without any explicit aligning interaction (of e.g.\ Vic…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 19 cited

Intermittent relaxation and avalanches in extremely persistent active matter

Yann-Edwin Keta, Rituparno Mandal, Peter Sollich +2

We use numerical simulations to study the dynamics of dense assemblies of self-propelled particles in the limit of extremely large, but finite, persistence times. In this limit, th…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 14 cited

Robustness of travelling states in generic non-reciprocal mixtures

Rituparno Mandal, Santiago Salazar Jaramillo, Peter Sollich

Emergent non-reciprocal interactions violating Newton's third law are widespread in out-of-equilibrium systems. Phase separating mixtures with such interactions exhibit travelling…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 1 cited

Mean field description of aging linear response in athermal amorphous solids

Jack T. Parley, Rituparno Mandal, Peter Sollich

We study the linear response to strain in a mean field elastoplastic model for athermal amorphous solids, incorporating the power-law mechanical noise spectrum arising from plastic…

cond-mat.soft2021

Active ploughing through a compressible viscoelastic fluid: Unjamming and emergent nonreciprocity

Jyoti Prasad Banerjee, Rituparno Mandal, Deb Sankar Banerjee +2

A dilute suspension of active Brownian particles in a dense compressible viscoelastic fluid, forms a natural setting to study the emergence of nonreciprocity during a dynamical pha…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 2 cited

Stratification, multivalency and turnover of the active cortical machinery are required for steady active contractile flows at the cell surface

Sk Raj Hossein, Rituparno Mandal, Madan Rao

Many cell membrane proteins that bind to actin form dynamic clusters driven by contractile flows generated by the actomyosin machinery at the cell cortex. Recent evidence suggests…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 43 cited

Robust Prediction of Force Chains in Jammed Solids using Graph Neural Networks

Rituparno Mandal, Corneel Casert, Peter Sollich

Force chains, which are quasi-linear self-organised structures carrying large stresses, are ubiquitous in jammed amorphous materials, such as granular materials, foams, emulsions o…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 14 cited

Memory in Non-Monotonic Stress Response of an Athermal Disordered Solid

Rituparno Mandal, Diego Tapias, Peter Sollich

Athermal systems across a large range of length scales, ranging from foams and granular bead packings to crumpled metallic sheets, exhibit slow stress relaxation when compressed. E…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 13 cited

Shear Induced Orientational Ordering in Active Glass

Rituparno Mandal, Peter Sollich

Dense assemblies of self propelled particles, also known as active or living glasses are abundantaround us, covering different length and time scales: from the cytoplasm to tissues…

cond-mat.soft2020

Interaction from Structure using Machine Learning: in and out of Equilibrium

Saientan Bag, Rituparno Mandal

Prediction of pair potential given a typical configuration of an interacting classical system is a difficult inverse problem. There exists no exact result that can predict the pote…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 15 cited

How to Study a Persistent Active Glassy System?

Rituparno Mandal, Peter Sollich

We explore glassy dynamics of dense assemblies of soft particles that are self-propelled by active forces. These forces have a fixed amplitude and a propulsion direction that varie…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 53 cited

Multiple Types of Aging in Active Glass

Rituparno Mandal, Peter Sollich

Recent experiments and simulations have revealed glassy features in the cytoplasm, living tissues as well as dense assemblies of self propelled colloids. This leads to a fundamenta…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 100 cited

Extreme active matter at high densities

Rituparno Mandal, Pranab Jyoti Bhuyan, Pinaki Chaudhuri +2

Extreme active matter, an assembly of self-propelled particles with large persistence time and high Péclet number, exhibits remarkable behaviour at high densities. As $τ_p\to…

physics.bio-ph2017★ 2 cited

Interacting passive advective scalars in an active medium

Sk Raj Hossein, Rituparno Mandal, Madan Rao

Recent experimental studies, both in vivo and in vitro, have revealed that membrane components that bind to the cortical actomyosin meshwork are driven by active fluctuations, wher…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 35 cited

Glassy swirls of active dumbbells

Rituparno Mandal, Pranab Jyoti Bhuyan, Pinaki Chaudhuri +2

The dynamics of a dense binary mixture of soft dumbbells, each subject to an active propulsion force and thermal fluctuations, shows a sudden arrest, first to a translational then…