Hydrodynamic theory of two-dimensional incompressible polar active fluids with quenched and annealed disorder

Abstract

We study the moving phase of two-dimensional (2D) incompressible polar active fluids in the presence of both quenched and annealed disorder. We show that long-range polar order persists even in this defect-ridden two-dimensional system. We obtain the large-distance, long-time scaling laws of the velocity fluctuations using three distinct dynamic renormalization group schemes. These are an uncontrolled one-loop calculation in exactly two dimensions, and two $d=(d_c-\epsilon )$-expansions to $O(\epsilon )$, obtained by two different analytic continuations of our 2D model to higher spatial dimensions: a ``hard" continuation which has $d_c=\frac{7}{3}$, and a ``soft" continuation with $d_c=\frac{5}{2}$. Surprisingly, the quenched and annealed parts of the velocity correlation function have the same anisotropy exponent and the relaxational and propagating parts of the dispersion relation have the same dynamic exponent in the nonlinear theory even though they are distinct in the linearized theory. This is due to anomalous hydrodynamics. Furthermore, all three renormalization schemes yield very similar values for the universal exponents, and, therefore, we expect the numerical values we predict for them to be highly accurate.

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