Polar active matter sustains spontaneous flows through topological defects. We study the flow profiles around ±1 defects induced by polar and dipolar active forces. Dipolar forces induce vortical flows around the +1 defect, while the flow around the -1 defect has an 8-fold rotational symmetry. The polarity of the flow near the +1 defect changes in the absence of friction.
Polar active matter of self-propelled particles sustain spontaneous flows through the full-integer topological defects. We study theoretically the incompressible flow profiles around & PLUSMN;1 defects induced by polar and dipolar active forces. We show that dipolar forces induce vortical flows around the +1 defect, while the flow around the -1 defect has an 8-fold rotational symmetry. The vortical flow changes its chirality near the +1 defect core in the absence of the friction with a substrate. We show analytically that the flow induced by polar active forces is vortical near the +1 defect and is 4-fold symmetric near the -1 defect, while it becomes uniform in the far-field. For a pair of oppositely charged defects, this polar flow contributes to a mutual interaction force that depends only on the orientation of the defect pair relative to the background polarization, and that enhances defect pair annihilation. This is in contradiction with the effect of dipolar active forces which decay inversely proportional with the defect separation distance. As such, our analyses reveals a long-ranged mechanism for the pairwise interaction between topological defects in polar active matter.
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