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Active particles such as swimming bacteria or self-propelled colloids are known to spontaneously organize into fascinating large-scale dynamic structures. The emergence of these collective states from the motility pattern of the individual…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-20 Hamid Karan , Gerardo E. Pradillo , Petia M. Vlahovska

Mathematical models for systems of interacting agents using simple local rules have been proposed and shown to exhibit emergent swarming behavior. Most of these models are constructed by intuition or manual observations of real phenomena,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-04 Graciano Dieck Kattas , Xiao-ke Xu , Michael Small

In this paper, we investigate the role of uninformed individuals in consensus formation within opinion-swarming models for self-propelled particles. The proposed models are inspired by empirical observations in animal swarming, particularly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-12 Gissell Estrada-Rodriguez , Victor Villegas-Morral , Marie-Therese Wolfram

Social networks offer users new means of accessing information, essentially relying on "social filtering", i.e. propagation and filtering of information by social contacts. The sheer amount of data flowing in these networks, combined with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Nidhi Hegde , Laurent Massoulié , Laurent Viennot

Self-propelled particles with anti-aligning interactions generally do not form a polar order. However, in this Letter, we show that when multiple types of such particles coexist and interact through aligning interactions between different…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-08 Takahiro Oki , Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama , Seiya Nishikawa , Shuji Ishihara , Toshinori Namba

A big challenge in current biology is to understand the exact self-organization mechanism underlying complex multi-physics coupling developmental processes. With multiscale computations of from subcellular gene expressions to cell…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-18 Xiaoliang Wang , Dongyun Bai

Animal groups frequently move in a highly organized manner, as represented by flocks of birds and schools of fish. Despite being an everyday occurrence, we do not yet fully understand how this works. What type of social interactions between…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-23 Daniel Strömbom , Tasnia Hassan , W. Hunter Greis , Alice Antia

Entanglement is a holistic property of multipartite quantum systems, which is accompanied by the establishment of nonclassical correlations between subsystems. Most entanglement mechanisms can be described by a coherent interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Zhi-Bo Yang , Yi-Pu Wang , Jie Li , C. -M. Hu , J. Q. You

Shape anisotropy of individual building blocks plays a crucial role in creating exotic structures and controlling phase behavior in equilibrium systems. We present a combined experimental and simulation study in which we used light-driven…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-05 Yogesh Shelke , Anpuj Nair S , Hanumantha Rao Vutukuri

Active systems of self-propelled agents, e.g., birds, fish, and bacteria, can organize their collective motion into myriad autonomous behaviors. Ubiquitous in nature and across length scales, such phenomena are also amenable to artificial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-17 Yuchen Xi , Trevor J. Jones , Richard Huang , Tom Marzin , P. -T. Brun

Microbes thrive in diverse porous environments -- from soil and riverbeds to human lungs and cancer tissues -- spanning multiple scales and conditions. Short- to long-term fluctuations in local factors induce spatio-temporal…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Chenyu Jin , Anupam Sengupta

The principle of self-organization has acquired a fundamental significance in the newly emerging field of computational philosophy. Self-organizing systems have been described in various domains in science and philosophy including physics,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-12 Birgitta Dresp-Langley

Using computer simulations, we study the dynamics of colloidal particles with time-delayed feedback interactions. In particular, here we consider "feedback-pullers", i.e.~colloidal particles that are pulled away from their current position…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-02 Sonja Tarama

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

Spontaneous emergence of correlated states such as flocks and vortices are prime examples of remarkable collective dynamics and self-organization observed in active matter. The formation of globally correlated polar states in geometrically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-10 Bo Zhang , Hang Yuan , Andrey Sokolov , Monica Olvera de la Cruz , Alexey Snezhko

A time-delayed response of individual living organisms to information exchanged within flocks or swarms leads to the emergence of complex collective behaviors. A recent experimental setup by (Khadka et al 2018 Nat. Commun. 9 3864),…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-30 Daniel Geiss , Klaus Kroy , Viktor Holubec

Active matter physics and swarm robotics have provided powerful tools for the study and control of ensembles driven by internal sources. At the macroscale, controlling swarms typically utilizes significant memory, processing power, and…

Because active particles break time-reversal symmetry, a single non-spherical body placed in an active fluid generates currents. We show that when two or more passive bodies are placed in an active fluid these currents lead to long-range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yongjoo Baek , Alexandre P. Solon , Xinpeng Xu , Nikolai Nikola , Yariv Kafri

Bacteria commonly live in structured communities that affect human health and influence ecological systems. Heterogeneous populations, such as motile and non-motile populations, often coexist in bacteria communities. Motile subpopulations…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Haoran Xu , Justas Dauparas , Debasish Das , Eric Lauga , Yilin Wu

Nature is an inhabitant for enormous number of species. All the species do perform complex activities with simple and elegant rules for their survival. The property of emergence of collective behavior is remarkably supporting their…