Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 223, 1409-1415 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2014-02200-5

Regular Article

Discussion on Ohta et al., “Traveling bands in self-propelled soft particles”

¹ Department of Physics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108-6050, USA
² Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Straße 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany

^a e-mail: thomas.ihle@ndsu.edu

Received: 26 March 2014
Revised: 14 April 2014
Published online: 12 June 2014

Abstract

A discussion on the contribution of Ohta and Yamanaka [1] in this special issue, supplemented by new agent-based simulations of band collisions within the standard Vicsek-model.