Spontaneously ordered motion of self-propelled particles
Spontaneously ordered motion of self-propelled particles
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DOI:
10.1088/0305-4470/30/5/009
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发表时间:
1997-03-07
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Vicsek, T
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Czirok, A;Stanley, HE;Vicsek, T
We study a biologically inspired, inherently non-equilibrium model consisting of self-propelled particles. In the model, particles move on a plane with a velocity of constant magnitude; they locally interact with their neighbours by choosing at each timestep a velocity direction equal to the average direction of their neighbours. Thus, in the limit of vanishing velocities the model becomes analogous to a Monte Carlo realization of the classical XY ferromagnet. We show by large-scale numerical simulations that, unlike in the equilibrium XY model, a long-range ordered phase characterized by non-vanishing net dow, phi, emerges in this system in a phase-space domain bordered by a critical line along which the fluctuations of the order parameter diverge. The corresponding phase diagram as a function of two parameters, the amplitude of noise eta and the average density of the particles rho is calculated and is found to have the form eta(c)(rho) similar to rho(1/2). We also find that phi scales asa function of the external bias h (field or 'wind') according to a power law phi similar to h(0.9). in the ordered phase the system shows long-range correlated fluctuations and 1/f noise.