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Depinning transition of self-propelled particles

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  • A depinning transition is observed in a variety of contexts when a certain threshold force must be applied to drive a system out of an immobile state. A well-studied example is the depinning of colloidal particles from a corrugated landscape, whereas its active-matter analogue has remained unexplored. We discuss how active noise due to self-propulsion impacts the nature of the transition: it causes a change of the critical exponent from 1/2 for quickly reorienting particles to 3/2 for slowly reorienting ones. In between these analytically tractable limits, the drift velocity exhibits a superexponential behavior as is corroborated by high-precision data. Giant diffusion phenomena occur in the two different regimes. Our predictions appear amenable to experimental tests, lay foundations for insight into the depinning of collective variables in active matter, and are relevant for any system with a saddle-node bifurcation in the presence of a bounded noise.

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Author:Arthur StraubeORCiD, Felix HöflingORCiD
Document Type:Article
Year of first publication:2023
ArXiv Id:http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09150
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