Dresden 2026 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 6: Active Matter II (joint session DY/BP/CPP)

BP 6.2: Vortrag

Montag, 9. März 2026, 15:15–15:30, ZEU/0160

Nucleation kinetics in two-dimensional polar active fluids — •Yuta Kuroda and Thomas Speck — Institute for Theoretical Physics IV, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Polar active fluids constitute one of the most important classes of active matter. These systems possess alignment interactions that cause the local polarization to align with that of neighboring particles, leading to a flocking transition in which global polar order emerges. Extensive numerical and analytical studies have established that the flocking transition is discontinuous, and consequently, the phase diagram possesses a coexistence region in which propagating polar bands appear. Despite intensive studies on flocking transitions, the nucleation mechanism responsible for the formation of these bands remains poorly understood. In this work, we numerically investigate the nucleation kinetics of polar bands using a particle model, namely active Brownian particles with a Kuramoto-type alignment interaction, and we report the behavior of the nucleation rate over a wide range of parameters.

Keywords: Polar active matter; Nucleation; Phase separation