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Understanding collective self-organization in active matter, such as bird flocks and fish schools, remains a grand challenge in physics. Interactions that induce alignment are essential for flocking; however, alignment alone is generally…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-01 Julian Giraldo-Barreto , Viktor Holubec

We consider the two-species Vicsek model (TSVM) consisting of two kinds of self-propelled particles, A and B, that tend to align with particles from the same species and to antialign with the other. The model shows a flocking transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-02 Swarnajit Chatterjee , Matthieu Mangeat , Chul-Ung Woo , Heiko Rieger , Jae Dong Noh

We study the effects of animal social networks with a weighted pattern of interactions on the flocking transition exhibited by models of self-organized collective motion. Considering a model representing dynamics on a one-dimensional…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-19 Jaume Ojer , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

By introducing a predictive mechanism with small-world connections, we propose a new motion protocol for self-driven flocks. The small-world connections are implemented by randomly adding long-range interactions from the leader to a few…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-02-03 Hai-Tao Zhang , Michael Z. Q. Chen , Tao Zhou

Social networks are organized into communities with dense internal connections, giving rise to high values of the clustering coefficient. In addition, these networks have been observed to be assortative, i.e. highly connected vertices tend…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-08 R. Toivonen , J. -P. Onnela , J. Saramäki , J. Hyvönen , K. Kaski

We have proposed a model based upon flocking on a complex network, and then developed two clustering algorithms on the basis of it. In the algorithms, firstly a \textit{k}-nearest neighbor (knn) graph as a weighted and directed graph is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-12-31 Qiang Li , Yan He , Jing-ping Jiang

We study the flocking and pattern formations of active particles with a Vicsek-like model that includes a configuration dependent noise term. In particular, we couple the strength of the noise with both the local density and orientation of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 Kosuke Matsui , John J. Molina

We present a study of pedestrian motion along a corridor in a non-panic regime (e.g., schools, hospitals or airports). Such situations have been discussed so far within the Social Force Model (SFM). We suggest to enrich this model by…

Applications · Statistics 2019-12-06 Juan Cruz Moreno , M. Leticia Rubio Puzzo , Wolfgang Paul

Collective movement is observed widely in nature, where individuals interact locally to produce globally ordered, coherent motion. In typical models of collective motion, each individual takes the average direction of multiple neighbors,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-23 Yogesh Kumar KC , Arshed Nabeel , Srikanth Iyer , Vishwesha Guttal

The emergence of collective motion, also known as flocking or swarming, in groups of moving individuals who orient themselves using only information from their neighbors is a very general phenomenon that is manifested at multiple spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-26 David A. Quint , Ajay Gopinathan

In our work we have studied a two-dimensional suspension of finite-size Vicsek hard-disks, whose time evolution follows an event-driven dynamics between subsequent time steps. Having compared its collective behaviour with the one expected…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-26 Raul Martinez , Francisco Alarcon , Diego Rogel Rodriguez , Juan Luis Aragones , Chantal Valeriani

Clustering, assortativity, and communities are key features of complex networks. We probe dependencies between these attributes and find that ensembles with strong clustering display both high assortativity by degree and prominent community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-29 David V. Foster , Jacob G. Foster , Peter Grassberger , Maya Paczuski

Birds in a flock move in a correlated way, resulting in large polarization of velocities. A good understanding of this collective behavior exists for linear motion of the flock. Yet observing actual birds, the center of mass of the group…

Symmetries are fundamental to dynamical processes in complex networks such as cluster synchronization, which have attracted a great deal of current research. Finding symmetric nodes in large complex networks, however, has relied on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-06 Yong-Shang Long , Zheng-Meng Zhai , Ming Tang , Ying Liu , Ying-Cheng Lai

We study a model of flocking in order to describe the transitions during the collective motion of organisms in three dimensions (e.g., birds). In this model the particles representing the organisms are self-propelled, i.e., they move with…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. Czirok , M. Vicsek , T. Vicsek

We show that sensorial delay alters the collective motion of self-propelling agents with aligning interactions: In a two-dimensional Vicsek model, short delays enhance the emergence of clusters and swarms, while long or negative delays…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-24 Rafal Piwowarczyk , Martin Selin , Thomas Ihle , Giovanni Volpe

Social hierarchy is central to decision-making in the coordinated movement of many swarming species. Here we propose a hierarchical swarm model in the spirit of the Vicsek model of self-propelled particles. We show that, as the hierarchy…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Tingting Xue , Xu Li , Peter Grassberger , Li Chen

Systems composed of interacting self-propelled particles (SPPs) display different forms of order-disorder phase transitions relevant to collective motion. In this paper we propose a generalization of the Vicsek model characterized by an…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-04-14 Pau Clusella , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

In this study, we use machine learning to classify and interpolate the phase structure of the Vicsek flocking model across the three-dimensional parameter space $(\eta,\rho,v_0)$. We construct a dataset of simulated parameter points and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-01 Grace T. Bai , Brandon B. Le

Natural flocks need to cope with various forms of heterogeneities, for instance, their composition, motility, interaction, or environmental factors. Here, we study the effects of such heterogeneities on the flocking dynamics of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-15 Aditya Kumar Dutta , Matthieu Mangeat , Heiko Rieger , Raja Paul , Swarnajit Chatterjee