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Coarsening Dynamics in the Vicsek Model of Active Matter
- Source :
- Eur. Phys. J. E (2020) 43: 10
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- We study the flocking model introduced by Vicsek in the "coarsening" regime. At standard self-propulsion speeds, we find two distinct growth laws for the coupled density and velocity fields. The characteristic length scale of the density domains grows as $L_{\rho}(t) \sim t^{\theta_\rho}$ (with $\theta_\rho \simeq 0.25$), while the velocity length scale grows much faster, $viz.$, $L_{v}(t) \sim t^{\theta_v}$ (with $\theta_v \simeq 0.83$). The spatial fluctuations in the density and velocity fields are studied by calculating the two-point correlation function and the structure factor, which show deviations from the well-known Porod's law. This is a natural consequence of scattering from irregular morphologies that dynamically arise in the system. At large values of the scaled wave-vector, the scaled structure factors for the density and velocity fields decay with powers $-2.6$ and $-1.52$, respectively.<br />Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures
- Subjects :
- Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Eur. Phys. J. E (2020) 43: 10
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1912.03044
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2020-11934-3