Glück Alexander, Hüffel Helmuth, Ilijić Saša
Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2011 May;83(5 Pt 1):051105. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.051105. Epub 2011 May 4.
We present a swarm model of Brownian particles with harmonic interactions, where the individuals undergo canonical active Brownian motion, i.e., each Brownian particle can convert internal energy to mechanical energy of motion. We assume the existence of a single global internal energy of the system. Numerical simulations show amorphous swarming behavior as well as static configurations. Analytic understanding of the system is provided by studying stability properties of equilibria.