Birth, Death and Flight: A Theory of Malthusian Flocks

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2011-08-22

arxiv.org/abs/1108.4392v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

4 pages; revised in response to referee comments

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I study "Malthusian Flocks": moving aggregates of self-propelled entities (e.g., organisms, cytoskeletal actin, microtubules in mitotic spindles) that reproduce and die. Long-ranged order (i.e., the existence of a non-zero average velocity $<\vec v (\vec r, t) >\ne \vec 0$) is possible in these systems, even in spatial dimension $d=2$. Their spatio-temporal scaling structure can be determined exactly in all spatial dimensions; furthermore, they lack both the longitudinal sound waves and the giant number fluctuations found in immortal flocks. Number fluctuations are very {\it persistent}, and propagate along the direction of flock motion, but at a different speed.

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