Unidirectional rotation of circles driven by chiral active particles
Chen Jiamin, Zhou Xiaolin, Zhang Linxi
       

(color online) (a) Cumulative rotation angle β of a rigid circle as a function of time t for various board lengths l. The inset figure is a schematic illustration of the rotation angle at time t0, and the straight black lines are linear fitting curves. (b) The corresponding relationship between average angular velocity of a rigid circle and board length l. Here the angular velocity ω of chiral active particles is 0.1, the area fraction ρ is 0.1, the number of boards nB is 4, and the tilt angle γ of boards is π/2. (c) Resultant moment MZ of rigid circle suffered from the collision of active particles on various collision positions. The inset figures show the division of collision positions and the definition of MZ.