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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 19, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aa8ed7
Keywords
active matter; flocking; Langevin equations; disordered systems
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- NSF IGERT [NSF-DGE-1068780]
- ICAM Branch
- MINECO (Spain)
- FEDER (European Union)
- Syracuse University
- [NSF-DMR-1305184]
- [NSFDMR-1609208]
- [FIS2015-65078-C2-1-P]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1609208] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We consider the effect of introducing a small number of non-aligning agents in awell-formed flock. To this end, we modify a minimal model of active Brownian particles with purely repulsive (excluded volume) forces to introduce an alignment interaction that will be experienced by all the particles except for a small minority of 'dissenters'. We find that even a very small fraction of dissenters disrupts the flocking state. Strikingly, these motile dissenters are much more effective than an equal number of static obstacles in breaking up the flock. For the studied system sizes we obtain clear evidence of scale invariance at the flocking-disorder transition point and the system can be effectively described with a finite-size scaling formalism. We develop a continuum model for the system which reveals that dissenters act like annealed noise on aligners, with a noise strength that grows with the persistence of the dissenters' dynamics.
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