Active Lévy Matter: Anomalous Diffusion, Hydrodynamics and Linear Stability
arXiv:1904.08326
Abstract
Anomalous diffusion, manifest as a nonlinear temporal evolution of the position mean square displacement, and/or non-Gaussian features of the position statistics, is prevalent in biological transport processes. Likewise, collective behavior is often observed to emerge spontaneously from the mutual interactions between constituent motile units in biological systems. Examples where these phenomena can be observed simultaneously have been identified in recent experiments on bird flocks, fish schools and bacterial swarms. These results pose an intriguing question, which cannot be resolved by existing theories of active matter: How is the collective motion of these systems affected by the anomalous diffusion of the constituent units? Here, we answer this question for a microscopic model of active Lévy matter -- a collection of active particles that perform superdiffusion akin to a Lévy flight and interact by promoting polar alignment of their orientations. We present in details the derivation of the hydrodynamic equations of motion of the model, obtain from these equations the criteria for a disordered or ordered state, and apply linear stability analysis on these states at the onset of collective motion. Our analysis reveals that the disorder-order phase transition in active Lévy matter is critical, in contrast to ordinary active fluids where the phase transition is, instead, first-order. Correspondingly, we estimate the critical exponents of the transition by finite size scaling analysis and use these numerical estimates to relate our findings to known universality classes. These results highlight the novel physics exhibited by active matter integrating both anomalous diffusive single-particle motility and inter-particle interactions.
arXiv comment31 pages, 9 figures. This the revised accompanying long paper of the manuscript arXiv:1903.07565
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