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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 z=3/2z=3/2, the "anisotropy" exponent ζ=3/4\zeta=3/4, and the "roughness" exponent χ=1/2\chi=-1/2. 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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