Freezing a Flock: Motility-Induced Phase Separation in Polar Active Liquids
Combining model experiments and theory, we investigate the dense phases of polar active matter beyond the conventional flocking picture. We show that above a critical density flocks assembled from self-propelled colloids arrest their collective motion, lose their orientational order, and form solids...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2019-09-01
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| Series: | Physical Review X |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031043 |