Collective behavior in the nonreciprocal multispecies Vicsek model.

Authors

Chul-Ung Woo, Heiko Rieger, Jae Dong Noh

Published in

Physical review. E. Volume 114. Issue 3-2. Pages 035434.

Abstract

We investigate collective behavior in a Q-species Vicsek model with a nonreciprocal velocity alignment interaction. This system is characterized by a constant phase shift α in the interspecies velocity alignment rule. While the phase shift renders the interaction nonreciprocal, the system is globally invariant under any permutations of particle species, possessing Potts symmetry. The combination of Potts symmetry and nonreciprocity gives rise to a rich phase diagram. The nonreciprocal phase shift generates either counterclockwise or clockwise chirality. Potts symmetry can be broken spontaneously. Consequently, the system exhibits four distinct phases: A species-mixed chiral phase where particles perform counterclockwise chiral motion with quasi-long-range order, a species separation phase where Potts symmetry is broken and species-separated particles form vortex cells with clockwise chirality, a coexistence phase, and a disordered phase, for 0<α<π. We derive a Boltzmann equation and a hydrodynamic equation describing the system in the continuum limit, and present analytic arguments for the emergence of chirality and species separation.

PMID:
42888785
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