Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2009-10-29
AIP Conference Proceedings Subseries: Mathematical and Statistical Physics 1198 (2009), p. 25-33
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
10 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.3284421
We consider the dynamics of the system of self propelling particles modeled via the Vicsek algorithm in continuum time limit. It is shown that the alignment process for the velocities can be subdivided into two regimes: "fast" kinetic and "slow" hydrodynamic ones. In fast kinetic regime the alignment of the particle velocity to the local neighborhood takes place with characteristic relaxation time. So that the bigger regions arise with the velocity alignment. These regions align their velocities thus giving rise to hydrodynamic regime of the dynamics. We propose the mean-field like approach in which we take into account the correlations between density and velocity. The comparison of the theoretical predictions with the numerical simulations is given. The relation between Vicsek model in the zero velocity limit and the Kuramoto model is stated. The mean-field approach accounting for the dynamic change of the neighborhood is proposed. The nature of the discontinuity of the dependence of the order parameter in case of vectorial noise revealed in Gregorie and Chaite, Phys. Rev. Lett., {\bf 92}, 025702 (2004) is discussed and the explanation of it is proposed.
Chepizhko A. A.
Kulinskii Vladimir L.
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