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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E Année : 2019

Dynamical subclasses of dry active nematics

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We show that the dominant mode of alignment plays an important role in dry active nematics, leading to two dynamical subclasses defined by the nature of the instability of the nematic bands that characterize, in these systems, the coexistence phase separating the isotropic and fluctuating nematic states. In addition to the well-known instability inducing long undulations along the band, another stronger instability leading to the breakup of the band in many transversal segments may arise. We elucidate the origin of this strong instability for a realistic model of self-propelled rods and determine the high-order nonlinear terms responsible for it at the hydrodynamic level.

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cea-04344820 , version 1 (14-12-2023)

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Li-Bing Cai, Hugues Chaté, Yu-Qiang Ma, Xia-Qing Shi. Dynamical subclasses of dry active nematics. Physical Review E , 2019, 99 (1), pp.010601. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.99.010601⟩. ⟨cea-04344820⟩
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