Reentrant phase behavior in binary topological flocks with nonreciprocal alignment
arXiv:2412.11871 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.023008
Abstract
We study a binary metric-free Vicsek model involving two species of self-propelled particles aligning with their Voronoi neighbors, focusing on a weakly nonreciprocal regime, where species aligns with both and , but species does not align with either. Using agent-based simulations, we find that even with a small fraction of particles, the phase behavior of the system can be changed qualitatively, which becomes reentrant as a function of noise strength: traveling bands arise not only near the flocking transition, but also in the low-noise regime, separated in the phase diagram by a homogeneous polar liquid regime. We find that the ordered bands in the low-noise regime travel through an ordered background, in contrast to their metric counterparts. We develop a coarse-grained field theory, which can account for the reentrant phase behavior qualitatively, provided the higher-order angular modes are taken into consideration.
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