Metastable Clusters and Channels published in New J. Phys.

Metastable clusters and channels formed by active particles with aligning interactions

Metastable clusters and channels formed by active particles with aligning interactions
Simon Nilsson & Giovanni Volpe
New Journal of Physics 19, 115008 (2017)
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aa9516
arXiv: 1706.01326

We introduce a novel model for active particles with short-range position-dependent aligning interactions and study their behaviour in crowded environments using numerical simulations. When only active particles are present, we observe a transition from a gaseous state to the emergence of metastable clusters as the level of orientational noise is reduced. When passive particles are also present, we observe the emergence of a network of metastable channels.

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