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Critical phenomena in compressible polar active fluids: dynamical and functional renormalization group studies
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Author(s)
Jentsch, Patrick
Lee, Chiu Fan
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Active matter is not only relevant to living matter and diverse nonequilibrium systems, but also constitutes a fertile ground for novel physics. Indeed, dynamic renormalization group (DRG) analyses have uncovered many new universality classes (UCs) in polar active fluids (PAFs)—an archetype of active matter systems. However, due to the inherent technical difficulties in the DRG methodology, almost all previous studies have been restricted to polar active fluids in the incompressible or infinitely compressible (i.e., Malthusian) limits, and, when the ε expansion was used in conjunction, to the one-loop level. Here, we use functional renormalization group (FRG) methods to overcome some of these difficulties and unveil critical behavior in compressible polar active fluids, and calculate the corresponding critical exponents beyond the one-loop level. Specifically, we investigate the multicritical point of compressible PAFs, where the critical order-disorder transition coincides with critical phase separation. We first study the critical phenomenon using a DRG analysis and find that it is insufficient since two-loop effects are important to obtain a nontrivial correction to the scaling exponents. We then remedy this defect by using a FRG analysis. We find three universality classes and obtain their critical exponents, which we then use to show that at least two of these universality classes are out of equilibrium because they violate the fluctuation-dissipation relation.
Date Issued
2023-04
Date Acceptance
2023-04-07
Citation
Physical Review Research, 2023, 5 (2), pp.1-24
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/103867
URL
https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.023061
DOI
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.023061
ISSN
2643-1564
Publisher
American Physical Society
Start Page
1
End Page
24
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review Research
Volume
5
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.
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Attribution 4.0 International
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https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.023061
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
023061
Date Publish Online
2023-04-26
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