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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 20: Poster IIIa

BP 20.2: Poster

Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 11:00–14:30, Poster B

Order from disorder: active particles with random alignment interactions — •Eloise Lardet and Thibault Bertrand — Imperial College London, London, UK

In 1995, Vicsek et al. wrote a seminal paper describing a simple model that displays a transition from disorder to collective ordered behaviour. It describes a system of self-propelled point particles that align with their neighbours within a certain radius. This minimal model displays rich nonequilibrium behaviours such as flocking and banding. Inspired by the random couplings of spin glass models, I present numerical findings of introducing Gaussian distributed pairwise couplings into a self-propelled particle system. Through adding further disorder by increasing the standard deviation of the Gaussian distribution that the couplings are drawn from, we are able to observe the emergence of global polar order in systems where the majority of couplings are anti-aligning.

Keywords: Flocking; Self-propelled particles; Disorder; Phase transition; Frustration