Solitonic-like interactions of counter-propagating clusters of active particles

dc.coverageDOI: 10.1063/5.0104579
dc.creatorEscaff, Daniel
dc.date2023
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-18T19:42:32Z
dc.date.available2025-11-18T19:42:32Z
dc.description<p>This report considers a set of interacting self-propelled particles immersed in a viscous and noisy environment. The explored particle interaction does not distinguish between alignments and anti-alignments of the self-propulsion forces. More specifically, we considered a set of self-propelled apolar aligning attractive particles. Consequently, there is no genuine flocking transition because the system has no global velocity polarization. Instead, another self-organized motion emerges, where the system forms two counter-propagating flocks. This tendency leads to the formation of two counter-propagating clusters for short-range interaction. Depending on the parameters, these clusters interact, exhibiting two of the four classical behaviors of counter-propagating dissipative solitons (which does not imply that a single cluster must be recognized as a soliton). They interpenetrate and continue their movement after colliding or forming a bound state where the clusters remain together. This phenomenon is analyzed using two mean-field strategies: an all-to-all interaction that predicts the formation of the two counter-propagating flocks and a noiseless approximation for cluster-to-cluster interaction, which explains the solitonic-like behaviors. Furthermore, the last approach shows that the bound states are metastables. Both approaches agree with direct numerical simulations of the active-particle ensemble.</p>eng
dc.identifierhttps://investigadores.uandes.cl/en/publications/5f5069ed-a60b-40c6-bc65-838f22b27ec4
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uandes.cl/handle/uandes/52397
dc.languageeng
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.sourcevol.33 (2023) date: 2023-04-01 nr.4
dc.subjectKuramoto models
dc.subjectSoft matter
dc.subjectPhase transitions
dc.subjectComputer simulation
dc.subjectMathematical modeling
dc.subjectSelf assembly
dc.subjectRandom walks
dc.subjectStochastic processes
dc.titleSolitonic-like interactions of counter-propagating clusters of active particleseng
dc.typeArticleeng
dc.typeArtículospa
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