Active Brownian motion in a single-relaxation viscoelastic fluid
arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.07059 (2026)
Research
My name is Sanatan Halder, and I am a PhD student in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. I have been working at the Soft and Active Matter Lab. My research interests are soft matter, active matter, optical tweezers, non-equilibrium statistical physics, numerical simulations, and colloids.
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Publications (6)
2026
Identifying the signatures of residual activity in harmonically bound active Brownian dynamics
arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.22222 (2026)
Realizing microrheological response of configurable viscoelastic media with a dynamic optical trap
Soft Matter 22, 4403 (2026)
2025
Dynamically stable optical trapping of thermophoretically active Janus colloids
ACS Photonics 13, 757 (2026)
Interplay between timescales governs the residual activity of a harmonically bound active Brownian particle
arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.07265 (2025)
2024
Optical Micromanipulation of Soft Materials: Applications in Devices and Technologies
in Soft Materials for Functional Applications, Springer Nature Singapore, pp. 415-469 (2024)