Collective motion of self-propelled particles: Kinetic phase transition inone dimension

Authors
Czirok, A Barabasi, AL Vicsek, T
Citation
A. Czirok et al., Collective motion of self-propelled particles: Kinetic phase transition inone dimension, PHYS REV L, 82(1), 1999, pp. 209-212
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
82
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
209 - 212
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(19990104)82:1<209:CMOSPK>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
We demonstrate that a system of self-propelled particles exhibits spontaneo us symmetry breaking and self-organization in one dimension, in contrast wi th previous analytical predictions. To explain this surprising result we de rive a new continuum theory that can account for the development of the sym metry broken state and belongs to the same universality class as the discre te self-propelled particle model. [S0031-9007(98)07911-3].