- Title
- Pattern phase transitions of self-propelled particles: gases, crystals, liquids, and mills
- Creator
- Cheng, Zhao; Chen, Zhiyong; Vicsek, Tamás; Chen, Duxin; Zhang, Hai-Tao
- Relation
- New Journal of Physics Vol. 18
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/10/103005
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- To understand the collective behaviors of biological swarms, flocks, and colonies, we investigated the non-equilibrium dynamic patterns of self-propelled particle systems using statistical mechanics methods and H-stability analysis of Hamiltonian systems. By varying the individual vision range, we observed phase transitions between four phases, i.e., gas, crystal, liquid, and mill-liquid coexistence patterns. In addition, by varying the inter-particle force, we detected three distinct milling sub-phases, i.e., ring, annulus, and disk. Based on the coherent analysis for collective motions, one may predict the stability and adjust the morphology of the phases of self-propelled particles, which has promising potential applications in natural self-propelled particles and artificial multi-agent systems.
- Subject
- Vicsek model; collective motions; complex networks
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1325682
- Identifier
- uon:25328
- Identifier
- ISSN:1367-2630
- Rights
- Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.
- Language
- eng
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