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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik
CPP 21: Active Matter III (joint session BP/CPP/DY)
CPP 21.10: Talk
Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 12:00–12:15, TOE 317
Flocking of unfriendly species: The two-species Vicsek model — •Swarnajit Chatterjee1, Matthieu Mangeat1, Chul-Ung Woo2, Heiko Rieger1, and Jae Dong Noh2 — 1Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany — 2University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea
We consider the two-species Vicsek model (TSVM) consisting of two kinds of self-propelled particles, A and B, that tend to align with particles from the same species and to anti-align with the other. The model shows a flocking transition that is reminiscent of the original Vicsek model [1]: it has a liquid-gas phase transition and displays micro-phase separation in the coexistence region where multiple dense liquid bands propagate in a gaseous background. The novel feature of the TSVM is the existence of two kinds of bands, one composed of mainly A-particles and one mainly of B- particles and the appearance of two dynamical states in the coexistence region: the PF (parallel flocking) state in which all bands of the two species propagate in the same direction, and the APF (anti-parallel flocking) state in which the bands of species A and species B move in opposite directions. When PF and APF states exist in the low-density part of the coexistence region they perform stochastic transitions from one to the other. The system size dependence of the transition frequency and dwell times shows a pronounced crossover that is determined by the ratio of the band width and the longitudinal system size. Our work paves the way for studying multispecies models with heterogeneous alignment interactions.
[1] T. Vicsek, A. Czirók, E. Ben-Jacob, I. Cohen, and O. Shochet, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1226 (1995).