Stationary broken parity states in active matter models
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| author | Frohoff-Hülsmann, Tobias Holl, Max Philipp Knobloch, Edgar Gurevich, Svetlana V. Thiele, Uwe |
| author_facet | Frohoff-Hülsmann, Tobias Holl, Max Philipp Knobloch, Edgar Gurevich, Svetlana V. Thiele, Uwe |
| contents | We demonstrate that several nonvariational continuum models commonly used to describe active matter as well as other active systems exhibit nongeneric behavior: each model supports asymmetric but stationary localized states even in the absence of pinning at heterogeneities. Moreover, such states only begin to drift following a drift-transcritical bifurcation as the activity increases. Asymmetric stationary states should only exist in variational systems, i.e., in models with gradient structure. In other words, such states are expected in passive systems, but not in active systems where the gradient structure of the model is broken by activity. We identify a "spurious" gradient dynamics structure of these models that is responsible for this nongeneric behavior, and determine the types of additional terms that render the models generic, i.e., with asymmetric states that appear via drift-pitchfork bifurcations and are generically moving. We provide detailed illustrations of our results using numerical continuation of resting and steadily drifting states in both generic and nongeneric cases. |
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| spellingShingle | Stationary broken parity states in active matter models Frohoff-Hülsmann, Tobias Holl, Max Philipp Knobloch, Edgar Gurevich, Svetlana V. Thiele, Uwe Soft Condensed Matter Pattern Formation and Solitons We demonstrate that several nonvariational continuum models commonly used to describe active matter as well as other active systems exhibit nongeneric behavior: each model supports asymmetric but stationary localized states even in the absence of pinning at heterogeneities. Moreover, such states only begin to drift following a drift-transcritical bifurcation as the activity increases. Asymmetric stationary states should only exist in variational systems, i.e., in models with gradient structure. In other words, such states are expected in passive systems, but not in active systems where the gradient structure of the model is broken by activity. We identify a "spurious" gradient dynamics structure of these models that is responsible for this nongeneric behavior, and determine the types of additional terms that render the models generic, i.e., with asymmetric states that appear via drift-pitchfork bifurcations and are generically moving. We provide detailed illustrations of our results using numerical continuation of resting and steadily drifting states in both generic and nongeneric cases. |
| title | Stationary broken parity states in active matter models |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Pattern Formation and Solitons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14364 |