Fore-aft asymmetric flocking

Qiu-Shi Chen1, Aurelio Patelli2,3, Hugues Chaté3,4,5

  • 1National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.

Physical Review. E
|September 28, 2017
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