5 papers
Metastability and nucleation of bubbles in active chiral systems
Raphael Maire, Alessandro Petrini, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi +1
Bubbles frequently emerge in dense chiral active fluids, yet it remains unclear whether they result from an instability of the homogeneous state or from rare nucleation events with…
Curvature-driven wall accumulation in chiral active particles
Alessandro Petrini, Raphaël Maire, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi +1
We study a dilute system of non-motile chiral active particles confined in geometries ranging from straight channels to circular enclosures. Activity is introduced through chiral p…
Sparkling bubbles in chiral active fluids
Alessandro Petrini, Raphaël Maire, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi +1
We study an inertial chiral active fluid, formed by repulsive particles that transfer angular momentum through odd interactions, i.e. transverse forces. Chirality induces an inhomo…
Kinetic Theory of Chiral Active Disks: Odd Transport and Torque Density
Raphael Maire, Alessandro Petrini, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi +1
Parity-odd transport is a central signature of chiral fluids, yet analytical predictions are sparse. Here, we introduce a minimal two-dimensional hard-disk gas in which chirality a…
Analyzing partially-polarized light with a photonic deep random neural network
Alessandro Petrini, Claudio Conti, Davide Pierangeli
Optical neural networks are emerging as a powerful and versatile tool for processing optical signals directly in the optical domain with superior speed, integrability, and function…