Self-Aligning Active Agents with Inertia and Active Torque
arXiv:2401.17798 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.110.014606
Abstract
We extend the study of the inertial effects on the dynamics of active agents to the case where self-alignment is present. In contrast with the most common models of active particles, we find that self-alignment, which couples the rotational dynamics to the translational one, produces unexpected and non-trivial dynamics, already at the deterministic level. Examining first the motion of a free particle, we contrast the role of inertia depending on the sign of the self-aligning torque. When positive, inertia does not alter the steady-state linear motion of an a-chiral self-propelled particle. On the contrary, for a negative self-aligning torque, inertia leads to the destabilization of the linear motion into a spontaneously broken chiral symmetry orbiting dynamics. Adding an active torque, or bias, to the angular dynamics the bifurcation becomes imperfect in favor of the chiral orientation selected by the bias. In the case of a positive self-alignment, the interplay of the active torque and inertia leads to the emergence, out of a saddle-node bifurcation, of truly new solutions, which coexist with the simply biased linear motion. In the context of a free particle, the rotational inertia leaves unchanged the families of steady-state solutions but can modify their stability properties. The situation is radically different when considering the case of a collision with a wall, where a very singular oscillating dynamics takes place which can only be captured if both translational and rotational inertia are present.
10 pages, 9 figures
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