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John Toner
Researcher at University of Oregon
Publications - 114
Citations - 7123
John Toner is an academic researcher from University of Oregon. The author has contributed to research in topics: Liquid crystal & Phase transition. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 105 publications receiving 6224 citations. Previous affiliations of John Toner include IBM & University of Chicago.
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Flocks, herds, and schools: A quantitative theory of flocking
John Toner,Yuhai Tu +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a quantitative continuum theory of flock behavior, which predicts the existence of an ordered phase of flocks, in which all members of even an arbitrarily large flock move together with the same mean velocity.
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Long-Range Order in a Two-Dimensional Dynamical XY Model: How Birds Fly Together.
John Toner,John Toner,Yuhai Tu +2 more
TL;DR: A nonequilibrium continuum dynamical model for the collective motion of large groups of biological organisms and describes a large universality class of microscopic rules, including those recently simulated by Vicsek et al.
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Hydrodynamics and phases of flocks
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the theoretical and experimental studies of flocking: the collective, coherent motion of large numbers of self-propelled "particles" (usually, but not always, living organisms).
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Elasticity and dislocations in pentagonal and icosahedral quasicrystals.
TL;DR: Identification des variables hydrodynamiques au sujet de ces etats quasicristallins ordonnes et caracterisation de leurs defauts topologiques.
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Active nematics on a substrate: Giant number fluctuations and long-time tails
TL;DR: In this paper, the equations of motion for the coupled dynamics of order parameter and concentration for the nematic phase of driven particles on a solid surface were constructed, and they imply giant number fluctuations with a standard deviation proportional to the mean in dimension d = 2 of primary relevance to experiment, and long time tails in the autocorrelation of the particle velocities despite the absence of a hydrodynamic velocity field.