Swarming and swirling in self-propelled polar granular rods

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2007-10-26

arxiv.org/abs/0710.5101v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 058001 (2008)

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Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

4 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.058001

Using experiments with anisotropic vibrated rods and quasi-2D numerical simulations, we show that shape plays an important role in the collective dynamics of self-propelled (SP) particles. We demonstrate that SP rods exhibit local ordering, aggregation at the side walls, and clustering absent in round SP particles. Furthermore, we find that at sufficiently strong excitation SP rods engage in a persistent swirling motion in which the velocity is strongly correlated with particle orientation.

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