Travelling Bands (IMAGE)

Sissa Medialab

Travelling Bands

Caption

In a model of self-propelled particles aligning with their topological neighbors, one observes the formation of traveling bands (in green), typical of discontinuous transitions. The particle colors encode their orientations.

Credit

Material provided by the author of the paper, Julien Tailleur

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