We combine numerical and analytical methods to study two dimensional active crystals formed by permanently linked swimmers and with two distinct alignment interactions. The system admits a stationary phase with quasi long range translational order, a
s well as a moving phase with quasi-long range velocity order. The translational order in the moving phase is significantly influenced by alignment interaction. For Vicsek-like alignment, the translational order is short-ranged, whereas the bond-orientational order is quasi-long ranged, implying a moving hexatic phase. For elasticity-based alignment, the translational order is quasi-long ranged parallel to the motion and short-ranged in perpendicular direction, whereas the bond orientational order is long-ranged. We also generalize these results to higher dimensions.
We show that Malthusian flocks -- i.e., coherently moving collections of self-propelled entities (such as living creatures) which are being born and dying during their motion -- belong to a new universality class in spatial dimensions $d>2$. We calcu
late the universal exponents and scaling laws of this new universality class to $O(epsilon)$ in a $d=4-epsilon$ expansion, and find these are different from the canonical exponents previously conjectured to hold for immortal flocks (i.e., those without birth and death) and shown to hold for incompressible flocks with spatial dimensions in the range of $2 < d leq 4$. We also obtain a universal amplitude ratio relating the damping of transverse and longitudinal velocity and density fluctuations in these systems. Furthermore, we find a universal separatrix in real (${bf r}$) space between two regions in which the equal time density correlation $langledeltarho({bf r}, t)deltarho(0, t)rangle$ has opposite signs. Our expansion should be quite accurate in $d=3$, allowing precise quantitative comparisons between our theory, simulations, and experiments.
We show that Malthusian flocks -- i.e., coherently moving collections of self-propelled entities (such as living creatures) which are being born and dying during their motion -- belong to a new universality class in spatial dimensions $d>2$. We calcu
late the universal exponents and scaling laws of this new universality class to $O(epsilon)$ in an $epsilon=4-d$ expansion, and find these are different from the canonical exponents previously conjectured to hold for immortal flocks (i.e., those without birth and death) and shown to hold for incompressible flocks in $d>2$. Our expansion should be quite accurate in $d=3$, allowing precise quantitative comparisons between our theory, simulations, and experiments.
We study universal behavior in the moving phase of a generic system of motile particles with alignment interactions in the incompressible limit for spatial dimensions $d>2$. Using a dynamical renormalization group analysis, we obtain the exact dynami
c, roughness, and anisotropy exponents that describe the scaling behavior of such incompressible systems. This is the first time a compelling argument has been given for the exact values of the anomalous scaling exponents of a flock moving through an isotropic medium in $d>2$.
We study incompressible systems of motile particles with alignment interactions. Unlike their compressible counterparts, in which the order-disorder (i.e., moving to static) transition, tuned by either noise or number density, is discontinuous, in in
compressible systems this transition can be continuous, and belongs to a new universality class. We calculate the critical exponents to $O(epsilon)$in an $epsilon=4-d$ expansion, and derive two exact scaling relations. This is the first analytic treatment of a phase transition in a new universality class in an active system.
We present a hydrodynamic theory of polar active smectics, for systems both with and without number conservation. For the latter, we find quasi long-ranged smectic order in d=2 and long-ranged smectic order in d=3. In d=2 there is a Kosterlitz-Thoule
ss type phase transition from the smectic phase to the ordered fluid phase driven by increasing the noise strength. For the number conserving case, we find that giant number fluctuations are greatly suppressed by the smectic order; that smectic order is long-ranged in d=3; and that nonlinear effects become important in d=2.
We study theoretically the smectic A to C phase transition in isotropic disordered environments. Surprisingly, we find that, as in the clean smectic A to C phase transition, smectic layer fluctuations do not affect the nature of the transition, in sp
ite of the fact that they are much stronger in the presence of the disorder. As a result, we find that the universality class of the transition is that of the Random field XY model (RFXY).
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Leiming Chen (College of Science
, The China University of Mining andn Technology
, Xuzhou
2011
We study the smectic $A$-$C$ phase transition in biaxial disordered environments, e.g. fully anisotropic aerogel. We find that both the $A$ and $C$ phases belong to the universality class of the XY Bragg glass, and therefore have quasi-long-ranged tr
anslational smectic order. The phase transition itself belongs to a new universality class, which we study using an $epsilon=7/2-d$ expansion. We find a stable fixed point, which implies a continuous transition, the critical exponents of which we calculate.
We show that in suitable anisotropic ferromagnets, both stable and metastable ``tilted phases occur, in which the magnetization ${vec M}$ makes an angle between zero and $180$ degrees with the externally applied ${vec H}$. Tuning either the magnitude
of the external field or the temperature can lead to continuous transitions between these states. A unique feature is that one of these transitions is between two {it metastable} states. Near the transitions the longitudinal susceptibility becomes anomalous with an exponent which has an {it exact} scaling relation with the critical exponents.
We consider theoretically the transport in a one-channel spinless Luttinger liquid with two strong impurities in the presence of dissipation. As a difference with respect to the dissipation free case, where the two impurities fully transmit electrons
at resonance points, the dissipation prevents complete transmission in the present situation. A rich crossover diagram for the conductance as a function of applied voltage, temperature, dissipation strength, Luttinger liquid parameter K and the deviation from the resonance condition is obtained. For weak dissipation and 1/2<K<1, the conduction shows a non-monotonic increase as a function of temperature or voltage. For strong dissipation the conduction increases monotonically but is exponentially small.
