Swarms with canonical active Brownian motion

Author(s)
Alexander Glück, Helmuth Hüffel, Sasa Ilijic
Abstract

We present a swarm model of Brownian particles with harmonic interactions, where the individuals undergo canonical active Brownian motion, i.e., each Brownian particle can convert internal energy to mechanical energy of motion. We assume the existence of a single global internal energy of the system. Numerical simulations show amorphous swarming behavior as well as static configurations. Analytic understanding of the system is provided by studying stability properties of equilibria.

Organisation(s)
Particle Physics
External organisation(s)
University of Zagreb
Journal
Physical Review E
Volume
83
No. of pages
4
ISSN
1539-3755
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.83.051105
Publication date
2011
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103036 Theoretical physics
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/4c2c9791-02f6-4cb1-90fe-5fb691959889