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cond-mat.stat-mech2015★ 23 cited
Leading birds by their beaks: the response of flocks to external perturbations
Nikos Kyriakopoulos, Francesco Ginelli, John Toner
We study the asymptotic response of polar ordered active fluids ("flocks") to small external aligning fields . The longitudinal susceptibility diverges, in the…
q-bio.PE2015★ 123 cited
Local equilibrium in bird flocks
Thierry Mora, Aleksandra M. Walczak, Lorenzo Del Castello +6
The correlated motion of flocks is an instance of global order emerging from local interactions. An essential difference with analogous ferromagnetic systems is that flocks are act…
cond-mat.soft2015★ 201 cited
The Physics of the Vicsek Model
Francesco Ginelli
In these lecture notes, prepared for the Microswimmers Summer School 2015 at Forschungszentrum Juelich, I discuss the well known Vicsek model for collective motion and its main pro…