Quicker flocking in aligning active matters for noisier beginning
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| author | Chatterjee, Sohini Das, Sohom Pathak, Purnendu Paul, Tanay Das, Subir K. |
| author_facet | Chatterjee, Sohini Das, Sohom Pathak, Purnendu Paul, Tanay Das, Subir K. |
| contents | The constituents in a class of active matter systems change their directions of motion by being influenced by the velocities of the neighbors. Such systems may undergo phase transitions, with respect to ordering in the velocity field, as well as clustering in the density field, when the strength of an externally imposed noise is varied. Via computer simulations, with a well-known model, that faithfully represents these systems, we show that evolutions in both clustering and ordering exhibit certain interesting features that were hitherto unrealized. The transformations occur quicker, following quenches to a fixed final state, below the transition point, for disordered starting states that are farther away from the ``critical" noise strength. This implies earliest arrival of the farthest, at a given destination. Detailed analysis of the results, combined with the outcomes from a similar study of para- to ferromagnetic transitions, show that the variation in critical fluctuations in the initial configurations can lead to such interesting effect. We quantify this via the Ornstein-Zernike theory. |
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| spellingShingle | Quicker flocking in aligning active matters for noisier beginning Chatterjee, Sohini Das, Sohom Pathak, Purnendu Paul, Tanay Das, Subir K. Statistical Mechanics The constituents in a class of active matter systems change their directions of motion by being influenced by the velocities of the neighbors. Such systems may undergo phase transitions, with respect to ordering in the velocity field, as well as clustering in the density field, when the strength of an externally imposed noise is varied. Via computer simulations, with a well-known model, that faithfully represents these systems, we show that evolutions in both clustering and ordering exhibit certain interesting features that were hitherto unrealized. The transformations occur quicker, following quenches to a fixed final state, below the transition point, for disordered starting states that are farther away from the ``critical" noise strength. This implies earliest arrival of the farthest, at a given destination. Detailed analysis of the results, combined with the outcomes from a similar study of para- to ferromagnetic transitions, show that the variation in critical fluctuations in the initial configurations can lead to such interesting effect. We quantify this via the Ornstein-Zernike theory. |
| title | Quicker flocking in aligning active matters for noisier beginning |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06482 |