Birth, Death, and Horizontal Flight: Malthusian flocks with an easy plane in three dimensions
Soft Condensed Matter
2024-11-14 v3 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Abstract
I formulate the theory of three dimensional "Malthusian flocks" -- i.e., coherently moving collections of self-propelled entities (such as living creatures) which are being "born" and "dying" during their motion -- whose constituents all have a preference for having their velocity vectors lie parallel to the same two-dimensional plane. I determine the universal scaling exponents characterizing such systems exactly, finding that the dynamical exponent , the "anisotropy" exponent , and the "roughness" exponent . I also give the scaling laws implied by these exponents.
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@article{arxiv.2407.03071,
title = {Birth, Death, and Horizontal Flight: Malthusian flocks with an easy plane in three dimensions},
author = {John Toner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.03071},
year = {2024}
}
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