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It is shown how to explicitly coarse-grain the microscopic dynamics of the Vicsek model for self-propelled agents. The macroscopic transport equations are derived by means of an Enskog-type kinetic theory. Expressions for all transport…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Thomas Ihle

We use the method of the microscopic phase density to get the kinetic equation for the system of self-propelled particles with Vicsek-like alignment rule. The hydrodynamic equations are derived for the ordered phase taking into account the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-24 Oleksandr Chepizhko , Vladimir Kulinskii

Considering a gas of self-propelled particles with binary interactions, we derive the hydrodynamic equations governing the density and velocity fields from the microscopic dynamics, in the framework of the associated Boltzmann equation.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-09 Eric Bertin , Michel Droz , Guillaume Grégoire

Starting from symmetry considerations, we derive the generic hydrodynamic equation of non-equilibrium $XY$ spin systems with $N$-atic symmetry under weak fluctuations. Through a systematic treatment we demonstrate that, in two dimensions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-31 Pablo Sartori , Chiu Fan Lee

This paper extends the multiscale modeling framework introduced in Part I (Deng and Ha, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 483 (2025) 134951) for sea-ice floe dynamics with non-rotating floes to the case with rotational floes and nonlinear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Quanling Deng , Seung-Yeal Ha , Jaemoon Lee

We use advances in the formalism of boost agnostic passive fluids to constrain transport in polar active fluids, which are subsequently described by the Toner-Tu equations. Acknowledging that the system fundamentally breaks boost symmetry…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-13 Andrea Amoretti , Daniel K. Brattan , Luca Martinoia

The SYK model has played an important role in recent developments in many-body quantum chaos. We study a spatially local generalisation of it: the SYK lattice. Starting from the nonlinear action of pseudo-Goldstone bosons that dominate its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Marta Bucca , Akash Jain , Márk Mezei , Alexey Milekhin

We consider collective motion and damping of dipolar Fermi gases in the hydrodynamic regime. We investigate the trajectories of collective oscillations -- here dubbed ``weltering'' motions -- in cross-dimensional rethermalization…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-02 Reuben R. W. Wang , John L. Bohn

In this paper, we present a two-species Vicsek model, that describes alignment interactions of self-propelled particles which can either move or not. The model consists in two populations with distinct Vicsek dynamics that interact only via…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Laurent Navoret

We propose a large-scale scaling viewpoint for deriving mesoscopic dynamics from interacting particle systems and apply it to the Cucker--Smale flocking model. In contrast with the classical mean-field regime leading to the Vlasov-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Ruicheng Cheng , Seung-Yeal Ha , Jaemoon Lee , Zhenfu Wang

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…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-14 John Toner

Although human beings have known about the phenomenon of "flocking"- that is, the coherent movement of large numbers of creatures (flocks of birds, schools of fish, herds of woolly mammoths, etc.)- since prehistoric times, it is only in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-04 John Toner

Birds in a flock move in a correlated way, resulting in large polarization of velocities. A good understanding of this collective behavior exists for linear motion of the flock. Yet observing actual birds, the center of mass of the group…

We study the phase ordering dynamics of a two dimensional model colloidal solid using molecular dynamics simulations. The colloid particles interact with each other with a Hamaker potential modified by the presence of equatorial "patches"…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-12-30 Chandana Mondal , Smarajit Karmakar , Surajit Sengupta

A single-component Fermi gas of polarized dipolar particles in a harmonic trap can undergo a mechanical collapse due to the attractive part of the dipole-dipole interaction. This phenomenon can be conveniently manipulated by the shape of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Goral , M. Brewczyk , K. Rzazewski

We show that phase separation in ordered polar active fluids belongs to a new universality class. This describes large collections of self-propelled entities (``flocks"), all spontaneously moving in the same direction, in which attractive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-12 Maxx Miller , John Toner

We present the hydrodynamics of fluids in three spatial dimensions with helical symmetry, wherein only a linear combination of a rotation and translation is conserved in one of the three directions. The hydrodynamic degrees of freedom…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-29 Jack H. Farrell , Xiaoyang Huang , Andrew Lucas

We study two-dimensional chiral dry Malthusian flocks; that is, chiral polar-ordered active matter with neither number nor momentum conservation. In the absence of fluctuations, these form a ``time cholesteric", in which the velocity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-09 Leiming Chen , Chiu Fan Lee , John Toner

We report part of our recent work on viscous hydrodynamics with consistent phase space distribution $f(x,\p)$ for freeze out. We develop the gradient expansion formalism based on kinetic theory, and with the constraints from the comparison…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Li Yan

We investigate the low-energy dynamics of systems with pseudo-spontaneously broken $U(1)$ symmetry and Goldstone phase relaxation. We construct a hydrodynamic framework which is able to capture these, in principle independent, effects. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-07 Martin Ammon , Daniel Arean , Matteo Baggioli , Seán Gray , Sebastian Grieninger