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We study the spatial pattern formation and emerging long range correlations in a model of three species coevolving in space and time according to stochastic contact rules. Analytical results for the pair correlation functions, based on a…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-28 Marek Grabowski , R. E. Camley

Species growing in environments that change in time and space will vary in their abundance across locations, even in the absence of persistent location preferences. Here we quantify this non-equilibrium effect by studying a minimal model of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-04 James F. D. Henderson , Andreas Tiffeau-Mayer

This chapter provides a pedagogical introduction and overview of spatial and temporal correlation and fluctuation effects resulting from the fundamentally stochastic kinetics underlying chemical reactions and the dynamics of populations or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-22 Uwe C. Täuber

We have developed an experimental setup of very simple self-propelled robots to observe collective motion emerging as a result of inelastic collisions only. A circular pool and commercial RC boats were the basis of our first setup, where we…

The existence of fluctuations together with interactions leads to scale-dependence in the couplings of quantum field theories for the case of quantum fluctuations, and in the couplings of stochastic systems when the fluctuations are of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 David Hochberg , Carmen Molina-Paris , Juan Perez-Mercader , Matt Visser

Numerous correlated electron systems exhibit a strongly scale-dependent behavior. Upon lowering the energy scale, collective phenomena, bound states, and new effective degrees of freedom emerge. Typical examples include (i) competing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-28 Walter Metzner , Manfred Salmhofer , Carsten Honerkamp , Volker Meden , Kurt Schoenhammer

Two hallmarks of non-equilibrium systems, from active colloids to animal herds, are agents motility and nonreciprocal interactions. Their interplay creates feedback loops leading to complex spatiotemporal dynamics crucial to understand and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-17 David Martin , Daniel Seara , Yael Avni , Michel Fruchart , Vincenzo Vitelli

Biological populations are subject to fluctuating environmental conditions. Different adaptive strategies can allow them to cope with these fluctuations: specialization to one particular environmental condition, adoption of a generalist…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-27 Andreas Mayer , Thierry Mora , Olivier Rivoire , Aleksandra M. Walczak

The collective motion of epithelial cells is a fundamental biological process which plays a significant role in embryogenesis, wound healing and tumor metastasis. While it has been broadly investigated for over a decade both in vivo and in…

Collective migration of animals in a cohesive group is rendered possible by a strategic distribution of tasks among members: some track the travel route, which is time and energy-consuming, while the others follow the group by interacting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-05 Benedetto Piccoli , Nastassia Pouradier Duteil , Benjamin Scharf

In swarms of flying insects, the motions of individuals are largely uncoordinated with those of their neighbors, unlike the highly ordered motion of bird flocks. However, it has been observed that insects may transiently form pairs with…

The dynamics based on information transfer is proposed as an underlying mechanism for the scale-invariant dynamic critical behavior observed in a variety of systems. We apply the dynamics to the globally-coupled Ising model, which is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Y. Choi , B. J. Kim , B. -G. Yoon , H. Park

Demographic heterogeneity is often studied through the geographical lens. Therefore it is considered at a predetermined spatial resolution, which is a suitable choice to understand scalefull phenomena. Spatial autocorrelation indices are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-01 Aleksejus Kononovicius , Justas Kvedaravicius

The spontaneous organization of collective activities in animal groups and societies has attracted a considerable amount of attention over the last decade. This kind of coordination often permits group-living species to achieve collective…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-05-20 Mehdi Moussaid , Simon Garnier , Guy Theraulaz , Dirk Helbing

In this paper we study a model of synchronization process on scale free networks with degree-degree correlations. This model was already studied on this kind of networks without correlations by Pastore y Piontti {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. E…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-02-15 Cristian E. La Rocca , Lidia A. Braunstein , Pablo A. Macri

Phenomena as diverse as breeding bird populations, the size of U.S. firms, money invested in mutual funds, the GDP of individual countries and the scientific output of universities all show unusual but remarkably similar growth…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-05-03 Yonathan Schwarzkopf , Robert L. Axtell , J. Doyne Farmer

Many migratory animals regularly travel thousands of kilometers, exactly finding their destinations. It is assumed that migrants have both a compass sense to hold their course, and a map sense --- a kind of "biological" GPS --- to correct…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-02-03 Vladimir N. Binhi

This article studies the change in the prediction accuracy of a response variable when the number of predictors increases, and all variables follow a multivariate normal distribution. Assuming that the correlations between variables are…

General Economics · Economics 2025-03-06 Maximilian Schaefer

Social interaction increases significantly the performance of a wide range of cooperative systems. However, evidence that natural swarms limit the number of social connections suggests potentially detrimental consequences of excessive…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-09-09 David Mateo , Yoke Kong Kuan , Roland Bouffanais

Ecosystems, which are intricate amalgams of biological communities and their surrounding environments, continually evolve under the influence of their myriad interactions. The world is currently facing intensifying environmental…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Ikumi Kobayashi