Publication Date:
2017-08-15
Description:
Author(s): Qiu-shi Chen, Aurelio Patelli, Hugues Chaté, Yu-qiang Ma, and Xia-qing Shi We show that fore-aft asymmetry, a generic feature of living organisms and some active matter systems, can have a strong influence on the collective properties of even the simplest flocking models. Specifically, an arbitrarily weak asymmetry favoring front neighbors changes qualitatively the phase d... [Phys. Rev. E 96, 020601(R)] Published Mon Aug 14, 2017
Keywords:
Colloids, Complex Fluids, and Active Matter
Print ISSN:
1539-3755
Electronic ISSN:
1550-2376
Topics:
Physics
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