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Spontaneous Motion Generates Reversible Nonreciprocity in an Achiral Active Elastic Ring

  • Wen-de Tian
  • Kang Chen
  • Tianhui Zhang
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Abstract

Nonreciprocal mechanical response is usually associated with built-in directional couplings, structural chirality, or external driving. Whether an achiral active body can instead generate and reverse such directionality through its own motion remains less clear. Here we show that spontaneous rotation makes an active elastic ring with reciprocal passive interactions mechanically nonreciprocal. Off-center elastic forces reorient propulsion, coupling deformation back to motion. Reversing the rotation reverses the antisymmetric response, while a compensating control preserves finite directionality but strongly suppresses the near-Hopf resonance. Approaching Hopf, the selected response grows inversely with distance to onset and becomes a self-sustained traveling deformation above threshold. Thus nonreciprocity is selected by the dynamical state, while active feedback controls its critical amplification.

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@misc{tian2026spontaneous,
  title = {{Spontaneous Motion Generates Reversible Nonreciprocity in an Achiral Active Elastic Ring}},
  author = {Wen-de Tian and Kang Chen and Tianhui Zhang},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.07050},
  eprint = {2610.07050},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07050},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - UNPB
TI  - Spontaneous Motion Generates Reversible Nonreciprocity in an Achiral Active Elastic Ring
AU  - Wen-de Tian
AU  - Kang Chen
AU  - Tianhui Zhang
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/05
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.07050
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07050
AB  - Nonreciprocal mechanical response is usually associated with built-in directional couplings, structural chirality, or external driving. Whether an achiral active body can instead generate and reverse such directionality through its own motion remains less clear. Here we show that spontaneous rotation makes an active elastic ring with reciprocal passive interactions mechanically nonreciprocal. Off-center elastic forces reorient propulsion, coupling deformation back to motion. Reversing the rotation reverses the antisymmetric response, while a compensating control preserves finite directionality but strongly suppresses the near-Hopf resonance. Approaching Hopf, the selected response grows inversely with distance to onset and becomes a self-sustained traveling deformation above threshold. Thus nonreciprocity is selected by the dynamical state, while active feedback controls its critical amplification.
ER  -