Journal
SOFT MATTER
Volume 7, Issue 7, Pages 3083-3086Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c0sm00856g
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan
- Next Generation of Physics, Spun from Universality and Emergence
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We investigate the dynamics of a self-propelled particle in three dimensions by solving numerically the time-evolution equations for the center of mass and a tensor variable characterizing the deformations around the spherical shape. There are successive bifurcations in the dynamics caused by changing the parameters. A straight motion becomes unstable and a rotating motion on a plane appears. After this rotating motion becomes unstable, a helical motion occurs. A linear stability analysis of these solutions is carried out to determine the bifurcation thresholds, which is in a good agreement with the numerical results.
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