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In this paper, we consider a multi-agent system consisting of mobile agents with second-order dynamics. The communication network is determined by the so-called topological interaction rule: agents interact with a fixed number of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Samuel Martin

Vicsek Model is widely used in simulations of dry active matter. We re-examined two typical phase transitions in the original Vicsek model by using the velocity correlation length. One is the noise-driven disordered-to-ordered phase…

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We have carried out a Monte Carlo simulation of a modified version of Vicsek model for the motion of self-propelled particles in two dimensions. In this model the neighborhood of interaction of a particle is a sector of the circle with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-24 Mihir Durve , Ahmed Sayeed

We numerically demonstrate bidirectional sorting of flocking particles interacting with an array of asymmetric barriers. Each particle aligns with the average swimming direction of its neighbors according to the Vicsek model and experiences…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 Jeffrey A. Drocco , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

We consider a general model of self-propelling particles interacting through a pairwise attractive force in the presence of noise and communication time delay. Previous work by Erdmann, et al. [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 71}, 051904 (2205)] has…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-13 Eric Forgoston , Ira B. Schwartz

Asymmetric obstacles can be exploited to direct the motion and induce sorting of run-and-tumbling particles. In this work, we show that flocking particles which follow the Vicsek model aligning rules experience a collective trapping in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-02 Raul Martinez , Francisco Alarcon , Juan Luis Aragones , Chantal Valeriani

Many-variable differential equations with random coefficients provide powerful models for the dynamics of many interacting species in ecology. These models are known to exhibit a dynamical phase transition from a phase where population…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-19 Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey , Guy Bunin

We study the impact of quantum and thermal fluctuations on properties of quantum phase transitions occurring in systems of itinerant fermions with main focus on the order of these transitions. Our approach is based on a set of flow…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Jakubczyk

The Vicsek simulation model of flocking together with its theoretical treatment by Toner and Tu in 1995 were two foundational cornerstones of active matter physics. However, despite the field's tremendous progress, the actual universality…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-19 Patrick Jentsch , Chiu Fan Lee

Using a minimal aggregation-based model, we address the efficient information transfer observed in natural flocks during collective turns. Specifically, we demonstrate that this feature can arise solely from the non-reciprocal nature of…

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A major challenge in the study of active matter lies in quantitative characterization of phases and transitions between them. We show how the entropy of a collection of active objects can be used to classify regimes and spatial patterns in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-11 Benjamin Sorkin , Avraham Be'er , Haim Diamant , Gil Ariel

Collective behaviour is a widespread phenomenon in biology, cutting through a huge span of scales, from cell colonies up to bird flocks and fish schools. The most prominent trait of collective behaviour is the emergence of global order:…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Attanasi , A. Cavagna , L. Del Castello , I. Giardina , S. Melillo , L. Parisi , O. Pohl , B. Rossaro , E. Shen , E. Silvestri , M. Viale

Although human beings have known about the phenomenon of "flocking"- that is, the coherent movement of large numbers of creatures (flocks of birds, schools of fish, herds of woolly mammoths, etc.)- since prehistoric times, it is only in the…

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We concentrate on kinetic models for swarming with individuals interacting through self-propelling and friction forces, alignment and noise. We assume that the velocity of each individual relaxes to the mean velocity. In our present case,…

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A spacially extended model of the collective behavior of a large number of locally acting organisms is proposed in which organisms move probabilistically between local cells in space, but with weights dependent on local morphogenetic…

adap-org · Physics 2008-06-25 Mark M. Millonas

A model of self-driven particles similar to the Vicsek model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 (1995) 1226] but with metric-free interactions is studied by means of a novel Enskog-type kinetic theory. In this model, N particles of constant speed v0 try…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-21 Yen-Liang Chou , Rylan Wolfe , Thomas Ihle

Experiments find coherent information transfer through biological groups on length and time scales distinctly below those on which asymptotically correct hydrodynamic theories apply. We present here a new continuum theory of collective…

We undertake a systematic numerical exploration of self-organized states in a deterministic model of interacting self-propelled particles in two dimensions. In the process, we identify various types of collective motion, namely, disordered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jihad Touma , Amer Shreim , Leonid Klushin