Active Matter Class with Second-Order Transition to Quasi-Long-Range Polar Order

Abstract

We introduce and study in two dimensions a new class of dry, aligning, active matter that exhibits a direct transition to orientational order, without the phase-separation phenomenology usually observed in this context. Characterized by self-propelled particles with velocity reversals and ferromagnetic alignment of polarities, systems in this class display quasi-long-range polar order with continuously-varying scaling exponents and yet a numerical study of the transition leads to conclude that it does not belong to the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class, but is best described as a standard critical point with algebraic divergence of correlations. We rationalize these findings by showing that the interplay between order and density changes the role of defects.

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