Phase-field crystal description of active crystallites: elastic and inelastic collisions

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العنوان: Phase-field crystal description of active crystallites: elastic and inelastic collisions
المؤلفون: Ophaus, Lukas, Kirchner, Johannes, Gurevich, Svetlana V., Thiele, Uwe
المصدر: Chaos 30, 123149 (2020)
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Nonlinear Sciences
مصطلحات موضوعية: Nonlinear Sciences - Pattern Formation and Solitons
الوصف: The active Phase-Field-Crystal (aPFC) model combines elements of the Toner-Tu theory for self-propelled particles and the classical Phase-Field-Crystal (PFC) model that describes the transition between liquid to crystalline phases. In the liquid-crystal coexistence region of the PFC model, crystalline clusters exist in the form of localized states that coexist with the homogeneous background. At sufficiently strong self-propulsion strength (or activity) they start to travel. We employ numerical path continuation and direct time simulations to first investigate the existence regions of different types of localized states for a one-dimensional system. The results are summarized in morphological phase diagrams in the parameter plane spanned by activity and mean concentration. Then we focus on the interaction of traveling localized states studying their collision behavior. As a result we distinguish 'elastic' and 'inelastic' collisions. In the former, localized states recover their properties after a collision while in the latter they may annihilate or form resting or traveling bound states. In passing, we describe oscillating and modulated traveling localized states that have as the steadily traveling localized states no counterpart in the classical PFC model.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1063/5.0019426
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07277
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2006.07277
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv