A microscopic Landau-Ginzburg theory predicts the self-alignment strength at which an active crystal transitions from disordered motion to collective flocking, with a diverging correlation length.
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Flocking as a second-order phase transition in self-aligning active crystals
A microscopic Landau-Ginzburg theory predicts the self-alignment strength at which an active crystal transitions from disordered motion to collective flocking, with a diverging correlation length.