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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Melting of nonreciprocal solids: How dislocations propel and fission in flowing crystals.

Stéphane Guillet, Alexis Poncet, Marine Le Blay, William T M Irvine, Vincenzo Vitelli, Denis Bartolo

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Stéphane Guillet *Univ. Lyon, ENS de Lyon, Univ. Claude Bernard, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique, Lyon F-69342, France.ORCID 0000-0003-2119-6033
Alexis Poncet *Univ. Lyon, ENS de Lyon, Univ. Claude Bernard, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique, Lyon F-69342, France.
Marine Le Blay *Pôle d'Etudes et Recherche de Lacq, Total SA, Lacq BP 47-64170, France.
William T M IrvineJames Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Vincenzo VitelliJames Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.ORCID 0000-0001-6328-8783
Denis BartoloUniv. Lyon, ENS de Lyon, Univ. Claude Bernard, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique, Lyon F-69342, France.ORCID 0000-0001-5035-6898

Funding

EC | European Research Council (ERC) 10101914
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When soft matter is driven out of equilibrium its constituents interact via effective interactions that escape Newton's action-reaction principle. Prominent examples include the hydrodynamic interactions between colloidal particles driven in viscous fluids, phoretic interactions between chemically active colloids, and quorum-sensing interactions in bacterial colonies. Despite a recent surge of interest in nonreciprocal physics, a fundamental question remains: do nonreciprocal interactions alter or strengthen the ordered phases of matter driven out of equilibrium? Here, through a combination of experiments and simulations, we show how nonreciprocal forces propel and fission dislocations formed in hydrodynamically driven Wigner crystals. We explain how dislocation motility results in the continuous reshaping of grain-boundary networks, and how their fission reaction melts driven crystals from their interfaces. Beyond the specifics of hydrodynamics, we argue theoretically that topological defects and nonreciprocal interactions should invariably conspire to deform and ultimately destroy crystals.

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colloidal crystalhydrodynamic meltingnonreciprocal interactionstopological defects

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PMID40215281
PMCPMC12012557

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