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Quantifying dissipation in flocking dynamics: When tracking internal states matters.

Karel Proesmans,G. Falasco,Atul Tanaji Mohite,Massimiliano Esposito,Étienne Fodor

Published 2025 in Physical Review E

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Aligning self-propelled particles undergo a nonequilibrium flocking transition from apolar to polar phases as their interactions become stronger. We propose a thermodynamically consistent lattice model, in which the internal state of the particles biases their diffusion, to capture such a transition. Changes of internal states and jumps between lattice sites obey local detailed balance with respect to the same interaction energy. We unveil a crossover between two regimes: for weak interactions, the dissipation is maximal, and partial inference (namely, based on discarding the dynamics of internal states) leads to a severe underestimation; for strong interactions, the dissipation is reduced, and partial inference captures most of the dissipation. Finally, we reveal that the macroscopic dissipation, evaluated at the hydrodynamic level, coincides with the microscopic dissipation upon coarsegraining. We argue that this correspondence stems from a generic mapping of active lattice models with local detailed balance into a specific class of nonideal reaction-diffusion systems.

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