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Systems of identical particles with equal charge are studied under a special type of confinement. These classical particles are free to move inside some convex region S and on the boundary of it $\Omega$ (the $S^{d-1}-$ sphere, in our…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 J. Batle

In the presence of an obstacle, active particles condensate into a surface "wetting" layer due to persistent motion. If the obstacle is asymmetric, a rectification current arises in addition to wetting. Asymmetric geometries are therefore…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-06 Mauricio Rojas-Vega , Pablo de Castro , Rodrigo Soto

We develop Random Batch Methods for interacting particle systems with large number of particles. These methods use small but random batches for particle interactions, thus the computational cost is reduced from $O(N^2)$ per time step to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Shi Jin , Lei Li , Jian-Guo Liu

Grover's database search algorithm is the optimal algorithm for finding a desired object from an unsorted collection of items. Although it was discovered in the context of quantum computation, it is simple and versatile enough to be…

General Physics · Physics 2007-12-03 Aavishkar A. Patel

We are interested in a kinetic equation intended to describe the interactions of particles with their environment. We focus on the long time behaviour. We prove that the time derivative of the spatial density goes to 0 and exhibit the omega…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Arthur Vavasseur

In real life, mostly problems are dynamic. Many algorithms have been proposed to handle the static problems, but these algorithms do not handle or poorly handle the dynamic environment problems. Although, many algorithms have been proposed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zahid Iqbal , Waseem Shahzad

Active colloidal particles typically exhibit a pronounced affinity for accumulating and being captured at boundaries. Here, we engineer long-range repulsive interactions between colloids that self-propel under an electric field and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-03 Carolina van Baalen , Stefania Ketzetzi , Anushka Tintor , Lucio Isa

A group of mobile agents, identical, anonymous, and oblivious (memoryless), having the capability to sense only the relative direction (bearing) to neighborhing agents within a finite visibility range, are shown to gather to a meeting point…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Levi-Itzhak Bellaiche , Alfred Bruckstein

Let $S$ be a set of $n$ points in the plane. We present several different algorithms for finding a pair of points in $S$ such that any disk that contains that pair must contain at least $cn$ points of $S$, for some constant $c>0$. The first…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Prosenjit Bose , Guillermo Esteban , Tyler Tuttle

We begin with a scenario that involves point-like observers starting at t=0 from the origin O of an inertial reference frame. They move with all possible proper accelerations in the positive direction of the OX axis. Equipped with light…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-02 Bernhard Rothenstein , Stefan Popescu

We consider a swarm of $n$ autonomous mobile robots, distributed on a 2-dimensional grid. A basic task for such a swarm is the gathering process: All robots have to gather at one (not predefined) place. A common local model for extremely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Matthias Fischer , Daniel Jung , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

We consider the {\em Shaped Partition Problem} of partitioning $n$ given vectors in real $k$-space into $p$ parts so as to maximize an arbitrary objective function which is convex on the sum of vectors in each part, subject to arbitrary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Frank K. Hwang , Shmuel Onn , Uriel G. Rothblum

The Fleming-Viot process describes a system of $N$ particles diffusing on a graph with an absorbing site. Whenever one of the particles is absorbed, it is replaced by a new particle at the position of one of the $N-1$ remaining particles.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-23 Éric Brunet , Bernard Derrida

In the field of swarm robotics, one of the most studied problem is Gathering. It asks for a distributed algorithm that brings the robots to a common location, not known in advance. We consider the case of robots constrained to move along…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Serafino Cicerone , Alessia Di Fonso , Gabriele Di Stefano , Alfredo Navarra

We consider the following geometric optimization problem: find a maximum-area rectangle and a maximum-perimeter rectangle contained in a given convex polygon with $n$ vertices. We give exact algorithms that solve these problems in time…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Sergio Cabello , Otfried Cheong , Christian Knauer , Lena Schlipf

Particle filtering is a numerical Bayesian technique that has great potential for solving sequential estimation problems involving non-linear and non-Gaussian models. Since the estimation accuracy achieved by particle filters improves as…

Computation · Statistics 2017-11-22 Jeyarajan Thiyagalingam , Lykourgos Kekempanos , Simon Maskell

The dynamics and spontaneous organization of coupled particles is a classic problem in modeling and applied mathematics. Here we examine the behavior of particles coupled by the Ricker potential, exhibiting finite local repulsion…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-11-21 David Sabin-Miller , Daniel M. Abrams

Determination of \emph{optimal} arrangements of $N$ particles on a sphere is a well-known problem in physics. A famous example of such is the Thomson problem of finding equilibrium configurations of electrical charges on a sphere. More…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Wesley J. M. Ridgway , Alexei F. Cheviakov

We identify generic protocols achieving optimal power extraction from a single active particle subject to continuous feedback control under the assumption that its spatial trajectory, but not its instantaneous self-propulsion force, is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-08 Luca Cocconi , Jacob Knight , Connor Roberts

We numerically study active Brownian particles that can respond to environmental cues through a small set of actions (switching their motility and turning left or right with respect to some direction) which are motivated by recent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-08 Marcel Gerhard , Ashreya Jayaram , Andreas Fischer , Thomas Speck