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We review recent progress on the zero-range process, a model of interacting particles which hop between the sites of a lattice with rates that depend on the occupancy of the departure site. We discuss several applications which have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. R. Evans , T. Hanney

We consider systems of agents interacting through topological interactions. These have been shown to play an important part in animal andhuman behavior. Precisely, the system consists of a finite number of particles characterized by their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Adrien Blanchet , Pierre Degond

Flocks of birds exhibit a remarkable degree of coordination and collective response. It is not just that thousands of individuals fly, on average, in the same direction and at the same speed, but that even the fluctuations around the mean…

We study a set of models of self-propelled particles that achieve collective motion through similar alignment-based dynamics, considering versions with and without repulsive interactions that do not affect the heading directions. We explore…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-27 Yinong Zhao , Thomas Ihle , Zhangang Han , Cristián Huepe , Pawel Romanczuk

In recent years, many efforts have been addressed on collision avoidance of collectively moving agents. In this paper, we propose a modified version of the Vicsek model with adaptive speed, which can guarantee the absence of collisions.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-04-03 Liqian Peng , Yang Zhao , Baomei Tian , Jue Zhang , Bing-Hong Wang , Hai-Tao Zhang , Tao Zhou

In this article, we investigate the convergence behavior of two classes of gathering protocols with fixed circulant topologies using tools from dynamical systems. Given a fixed number of mobile entities moving in the Euclidean plane, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Raphael Gerlach , Sören von der Gracht , Michael Dellnitz

We propose in this paper a minimal speed-based pedestrian model for which particle dynamics are intrinsically collision-free. The speed model is an optimal velocity function depending on the agent length (i.e.\ particle diameter), maximum…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-19 Antoine Tordeux , Mohcine Chraibi , Armin Seyfried

A simple model for the nonlinear collective transport of interacting particles in a random medium with strong disorder is introduced and analyzed. A finite threshold for the driving force divides the behavior into two regimes characterized…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Joe Watson , Daniel S. Fisher

By generalizing a class of models recently introduced to account for protracted transients in biological systems, we identify a novel mechanism for hyperuniformity. In this model, competition of particles over a shared resource guides the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-11 Tal Agranov , Natan Wiegenfeld , Omer Karin , Benjamin D. Simons

Many cell types display random motility on two-dimensional substrates, but crawl persistently in a single direction when confined in a microchannel or on an adhesive micropattern. Does this imply that the motility mechanism of confined…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-06-13 Brian A. Camley , Wouter-Jan Rappel

We study a model of interacting random walkers that proposes a simple mechanism for the emergence of cooperation in group of individuals. Each individual, represented by a Brownian particle, experiences an interaction produced by the local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabio Cecconi , Giuseppe Gonnella , Gustavo P. Saracco

We study a class of interacting particle systems on $\mathbb{R}$ with two types. Particles evolve by independent jumps sampled from a fixed distribution, with type-dependent jump rates $v_+$, $v_-$ and stochastic type switching driven by…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Sayan Banerjee , Andrew Nguyen

We investigate a general class of models for swarming/self-collective behaviour in domains with boundaries. The model is expressed as a stochastic system of interacting particles subject to both reflecting boundary condition and common…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Razvan C. Fetecau , Hui Huang , Jinniao Qiu

The emerging collective motions of swarms of interacting agents are a subject of great interest in application areas ranging from biology to physics and robotics. In this paper, we conduct a careful analysis of the collective dynamics of a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-09-04 Klementyna Szwaykowska , Luis Mier-y-Teran Romero , Ira B. Schwartz

We bound the time it takes for a group of birds to reach steady state in a standard flocking model. We prove that (i) within single exponential time fragmentation ceases and each bird settles on a fixed flying direction; (ii) the flocking…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-05-27 Bernard Chazelle

We introduce a model of self-propelled particles carrying out a Brownian motion with a diffusion coefficient which depends on the local density of particles within a certain finite radius. Numerical simulations show that in a range of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Cristobal Lopez

We study a system consisting of $n$ particles, moving forward in jumps on the real line. Each particle can make both independent jumps, whose sizes have some distribution, or ``synchronization'' jumps, which allow it to join a randomly…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Yuliy Baryshnikov , Alexander Stolyar

We study the transport properties of a system of active particles moving at constant speed in an heterogeneous two-dimensional space. The spatial heterogeneity is modeled by a random distribution of obstacles, which the active particles…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 Oleksandr Chepizhko , Fernando Peruani

An important characteristic of flocks of birds, school of fish, and many similar assemblies of self-propelled particles is the emergence of states of collective order in which the particles move in the same direction. When noise is added…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-19 M. Aldana , V. Dossetti , C. Huepe , V. M. Kenkre , H. Larralde

This paper is concerned with mathematical modeling of intelligent systems, such as human crowds and animal groups. In particular, the focus is on the emergence of different self-organized patterns from non-locality and anisotropy of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Emiliano Cristiani , Benedetto Piccoli , Andrea Tosin