Article ; Online: Collective effects in confined active Brownian particles.
The Journal of chemical physics
2021 Volume 154, Issue 24, Page(s) 244901
Abstract: We investigate a two-dimensional system of active particles confined to a narrow annular domain. Despite the absence of explicit interactions among the velocities or the active forces of different particles, the system displays a transition from a ... ...
| Abstract | We investigate a two-dimensional system of active particles confined to a narrow annular domain. Despite the absence of explicit interactions among the velocities or the active forces of different particles, the system displays a transition from a disordered and stuck state to an ordered state of global collective motion where the particles rotate persistently clockwise or anticlockwise. We describe this behavior by introducing a suitable order parameter, the velocity polarization, measuring the global alignment of the particles' velocities along the tangential direction of the ring. We also measure the spatial velocity correlation function and its correlation length to characterize the two states. In the rotating phase, the velocity correlation displays an algebraic decay that is analytically predicted together with its correlation length, while in the stuck regime, the velocity correlation decays exponentially with a correlation length that increases with the persistence time. In the first case, the correlation (and, in particular, its correlation length) does not depend on the active force but the system size only. The global collective motion, an effect caused by the interplay between finite-size, periodicity, and persistent active forces, disappears as the size of the ring becomes infinite, suggesting that this phenomenon does not correspond to a phase transition in the usual thermodynamic sense. |
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| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2021-07-08 |
| Publishing country | United States |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 3113-6 |
| ISSN | 1089-7690 ; 0021-9606 |
| ISSN (online) | 1089-7690 |
| ISSN | 0021-9606 |
| DOI | 10.1063/5.0051315 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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