  Many microorganisms take a chiral path while swimming in an ambient uid. In
this paper, we study the combined behavior of two chiral swimmers using the
well-known squirmer model taking into account chiral asymmetries. In contrast
to the simple squirmer model, which has an axisymmetric distribution of slip
velocity, the chiral squirmer has additional asymmetries in the surface slip,
which contribute to both translations and rotations of the motion. As a result,
swimming trajectories can become helical and chiral asymmetries arise in the ow
patterns. We study the swimming trajectories of a pair of chiral squirmers that
interact hydrodynamically. This interaction can lead to attraction and
repulsion, and in some cases even to bounded states where the swimmers continue
to periodically orbit around a common average trajectory. Such bound states are
a signature of the chiral nature of the swimmers. Our study could be relevant
to the collective movements of ciliated microorganisms.
