  An amalgamate of nematic liquid crystals and active matter, referred to as
living liquid crystals, is a promising self-healing material with futuristic
applications for targeted delivery of information and micro-cargo. We provide a
phenomenological model to study the symbiotic pattern dynamics in this
contemporary system using the Toner-Tu model for active matter (AM), the
Landau-de Gennes free energy for liquid crystals (LCs), and an experimentally
motivated coupling term that favours co-alignment of the active and nematic
components. Our extensive theoretical studies unfold two novel steady states,
chimeras and solitons, with sharp regions of distinct orientational order that
sweep through the coupled system in synchrony. The induced dynamics in the
passive nematic is unprecedented. We show that the symbiotic dynamics of the AM
and LC components can be exploited to induce and manipulate order in an
otherwise disordered system.
