Ratchet Effects for Swarmalators on Asymmetric Substrates
Abstract
Swarmalators are particles which have internal degrees of freedom in the form of phase oscillators that can synchronize and change the dynamics of the particles. We explore the active matter disk swarmalator model proposed by Adorjáni [Phys. Rev. E 109, 024607 (2024)] where there is an additional attraction or repulsion determined by whether the phases of particles within a certain radius synchronize or anti-synchronize. This model in the absence of swarmalator rules forms a motility-induced phase-separated (MIPS) state at high activity, but when the swarmalator rules are present, a number of additional states appear including an active gel, labyrinth state, frustrated MIPS, and frustrated fluid states. Here we examine ratchet effects for the Adorjáni model coupled to asymmetric substrates. We find that swarmalator interactions can strongly enhance or suppress active matter ratcheting depending on the structural state of the system, and show that the ratchet efficiency depends on the substrate strength, substrate lattice spacing, and the motor force on the particles. The gel state exhibits the weakest ratcheting for small substrate spacing and can even produce a reversed ratchet motion, but shows the strongest ratcheting for large motor forces. The labyrinth state exhibits the strongest ratcheting over a wide range of parameters since the quasi-one-dimensional labyrinth morphology can match the substrate geometry well.
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BibTeX
@misc{albert2026ratchet,
title = {{Ratchet Effects for Swarmalators on Asymmetric Substrates}},
author = {B. Albert and A. Libal and C. J. O. Reichhardt and C. Reichhardt},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.36318},
eprint = {2610.36318},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36318},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Ratchet Effects for Swarmalators on Asymmetric Substrates
AU - B. Albert
AU - A. Libal
AU - C. J. O. Reichhardt
AU - C. Reichhardt
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/26
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.36318
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36318
AB - Swarmalators are particles which have internal degrees of freedom in the form of phase oscillators that can synchronize and change the dynamics of the particles. We explore the active matter disk swarmalator model proposed by Adorjáni [Phys. Rev. E 109, 024607 (2024)] where there is an additional attraction or repulsion determined by whether the phases of particles within a certain radius synchronize or anti-synchronize. This model in the absence of swarmalator rules forms a motility-induced phase-separated (MIPS) state at high activity, but when the swarmalator rules are present, a number of additional states appear including an active gel, labyrinth state, frustrated MIPS, and frustrated fluid states. Here we examine ratchet effects for the Adorjáni model coupled to asymmetric substrates. We find that swarmalator interactions can strongly enhance or suppress active matter ratcheting depending on the structural state of the system, and show that the ratchet efficiency depends on the substrate strength, substrate lattice spacing, and the motor force on the particles. The gel state exhibits the weakest ratcheting for small substrate spacing and can even produce a reversed ratchet motion, but shows the strongest ratcheting for large motor forces. The labyrinth state exhibits the strongest ratcheting over a wide range of parameters since the quasi-one-dimensional labyrinth morphology can match the substrate geometry well.
ER -