From flocking to glassiness in dense disordered polar active matter

Abstract Living materials such as biological tissues or bacterial colonies are collections of heterogeneous entities of different sizes, capable of autonomous motion, and often capable of cooperating. Such a degree of complexity brings to collective motion on large scales. However, how the competiti...

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Main Authors: Matteo Paoluzzi, Demian Levis, Ignacio Pagonabarraga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-02-01
Series:Communications Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-024-01551-7