Fluctuation-Induced First Order Transition to Collective Motion
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| author | Martin, David Spera, Gianmarco Chaté, Hugues Duclut, Charlie Nardini, Cesare Tailleur, Julien van Wijland, Frédéric |
| author_facet | Martin, David Spera, Gianmarco Chaté, Hugues Duclut, Charlie Nardini, Cesare Tailleur, Julien van Wijland, Frédéric |
| contents | The nature of the transition to collective motion in assemblies of aligning self-propelled particles remains a long-standing matter of debate. In this article, we focus on dry active matter and show that weak fluctuations suffice to generically turn second-order mean-field transitions into a `discontinuous' coexistence scenario. Our theory shows how fluctuations induce a density-dependence of the polar-field mass, even when this effect is absent at mean-field level. In turn, this dependency on density triggers a feedback loop between ordering and advection that ultimately leads to an inhomogeneous transition to collective motion and the emergence of inhomogeneous travelling bands. Importantly, we show that such a fluctuation-induced first order transition is present in both metric models, in which particles align with neighbors within a finite distance, and in `topological' ones, in which alignment is based on more complex constructions of neighbor sets. We compute analytically the noise-induced renormalization of the polar-field mass using stochastic calculus, which we further back up by a one-loop field-theoretical analysis. Finally, we confirm our analytical predictions by numerical simulations of fluctuating hydrodynamics as well as of topological particle models with either k-nearest neighbors or Voronoi alignment. |
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| spellingShingle | Fluctuation-Induced First Order Transition to Collective Motion Martin, David Spera, Gianmarco Chaté, Hugues Duclut, Charlie Nardini, Cesare Tailleur, Julien van Wijland, Frédéric Soft Condensed Matter Statistical Mechanics The nature of the transition to collective motion in assemblies of aligning self-propelled particles remains a long-standing matter of debate. In this article, we focus on dry active matter and show that weak fluctuations suffice to generically turn second-order mean-field transitions into a `discontinuous' coexistence scenario. Our theory shows how fluctuations induce a density-dependence of the polar-field mass, even when this effect is absent at mean-field level. In turn, this dependency on density triggers a feedback loop between ordering and advection that ultimately leads to an inhomogeneous transition to collective motion and the emergence of inhomogeneous travelling bands. Importantly, we show that such a fluctuation-induced first order transition is present in both metric models, in which particles align with neighbors within a finite distance, and in `topological' ones, in which alignment is based on more complex constructions of neighbor sets. We compute analytically the noise-induced renormalization of the polar-field mass using stochastic calculus, which we further back up by a one-loop field-theoretical analysis. Finally, we confirm our analytical predictions by numerical simulations of fluctuating hydrodynamics as well as of topological particle models with either k-nearest neighbors or Voronoi alignment. |
| title | Fluctuation-Induced First Order Transition to Collective Motion |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Statistical Mechanics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05078 |