Non-reciprocal forces and exceptional phase transitions in metric and topological flocks
Abstract
Many models of flocking involve alignment rules based on the mean orientation of neighboring particles, which we show introduces microscopic non-reciprocal interactions. In the absence of this microscopic non-reciprocity an exceptional phase transition is predicted at low noise strength within the Toner-Tu framework of polar aligning matter; we demonstrate this transition via large-scale numerical simulations. By coarse-graining the microscopic non-reciprocal forces found in more common models of flocking, we identify additional terms in a hydrodynamic description which lead to a highly ordered clustered phase in metric models and restore the homogeneous flocking phase in topological models.
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@article{arxiv.2208.09461,
title = {Non-reciprocal forces and exceptional phase transitions in metric and topological flocks},
author = {Charles Packard and Daniel M. Sussman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.09461},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
We have found an important bug in the code used to implement the simulations described in this work. We have fixed the bug but cannot yet verify that the numerical claims made are correct