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Physics of Flocking: Birth, Death, and Flight in Active Matter [Hardback]

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(University of Oregon)
  • Formāts: Hardback, 260 pages, height x width x depth: 250x176x20 mm, weight: 610 g, Worked examples or Exercises
  • Izdošanas datums: 23-May-2024
  • Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1108834566
  • ISBN-13: 9781108834568
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 260 pages, height x width x depth: 250x176x20 mm, weight: 610 g, Worked examples or Exercises
  • Izdošanas datums: 23-May-2024
  • Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1108834566
  • ISBN-13: 9781108834568
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This book describes the hydrodynamic theory of flocking – the collective motion of large numbers of organisms. Through applying powerful techniques, such as hydrodynamic theories, the gradient expansion, and the renormalization group, readers from physics, mathematics, and biology are given the tools to understand this exciting field of research.

In creatures ranging from birds to fish to wildebeest, we observe the collective and coherent motion of large numbers of organisms, known as 'flocking.' John Toner, one of the founders of the field of active matter, uses the hydrodynamic theory of flocking to explain why a crowd of people can all walk, but not point, in the same direction. Assuming a basic undergraduate-level understanding of statistical mechanics, the text introduces readers to dry active matter and describes the current status of this rapidly developing field. Through the application of powerful techniques from theoretical condensed matter physics, such as hydrodynamic theories, the gradient expansion, and the renormalization group, readers are given the knowledge and tools to explore and understand this exciting field of research. This book will be valuable to graduate students and researchers in physics, mathematics, and biology with an interest in the hydrodynamic theory of flocking.

Recenzijas

'This book presents the seminal work of John Toner on the dynamics of flocks, which started the whole field of active matter. The presentation of these important theoretical results is pedagogical and self-contained and it will be very useful researchers with an interest in active matter.' Jean-Francois Joanny, Collčge de France 'With this book, John Toner has pulled off the nearly impossible, namely, writing a book that is at once fun, intuitive, inspiring, deep and technical. I particularly loved the ease with which he introduces and explains what it means to write down a hydrodynamic theory, in this case with reference to one of the greatest wonders on the planet, the collective motion of animals.' Rob Phillips, California Institute of Technology 'In his characteristic witty style, J. Toner presents in a gentle and pedagogical format the theoretical study that kick-started active matter research. These classical results are complemented by more recent developments that are at the forefront of current research. An essential and pleasurable reading for anyone interested in theoretical active matter.' Francesco Ginelli, Universitą degli Studi dell'Insubria

Papildus informācija

Presents the hydrodynamic theory of flocking the collective motion of organisms for readers in physics, mathematics, and biology.
1. Introduction and motivation: are birds smarter than nerds?;
2.
Dynamical derivation (and a more conventional one) of the
MerminWagnerHohenberg Theorem; or, why we can't all point the same way;
3.
The dynamical Renormalization Group;; or, why we can do physics, illustrated
by the KPZ equation;
4. Formulating the hydrodynamic model for flocking;
5.
The dynamical renormalization group applied to the flocking problem;
6.
Incompressible polar active fluids in the moving phase in dimensions d > 2:
the 'canonical' exponents;
7. Heuristic argument for the canonical exponents
('2020 hindsight handwaving argument');
8. Incompressible flocks in spatial
dimensions d = 2: mapping to the KPZ equation;
9. 'Malthusian' flocks (flocks
with birth and death); Bibliography; Index.
John Toner is a theoretical physicist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon, with a primary research focus in condensed matter physics. He predicted that soap is the best soundproofing material, and that quasicrystals are the hardest. He was awarded the American Physical Society's 2020 Onsager Prize in Statistical Physics for his pioneering work on flocking. He has also been the recipient of Simons and Gutzwiller Fellowships, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.