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Quantifying the spatial organization of human settlements is fundamental to understanding the complexity of urban systems. However, the quantitative patterns of the distribution of villages, towns, and cities that lie between random and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-06 Lei Dong

Molecular building blocks interacting at the nanoscale organize spontaneously into stable mono- layers that display intriguing long-range ordering motifs on the surface of atomic substrates. The patterning process, if appropriately…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-18 Marta Balbás Gambra , Carsten Rohr , Kathrin Gruber , Bianca Hermann , Thomas Franosch

Localized patterns are coherent structures embedded in a quiescent state and occur in both discrete and continuous media across a wide range of applications. While it is well-understood how domain covering patterns (for example stripes and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-03-19 Jason J. Bramburger , Dan J. Hill , David J. B. Lloyd

Multicellular organisms comprise a diverse collection of stable tissues built from different cell types. It remains unclear how large numbers of interacting cells can precisely coordinate their gene expression during tissue…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-10-31 Matthew Smart , Anton Zilman

Cell invasion and spatial pattern formation are two distinct manifestations of cellular self-organisation in development, regeneration, and disease. Here, we develop and analyse a unified theoretical framework that links these two seemingly…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-30 Carles Falcó , Samuel W. S. Johnson , Mohit P. Dalwadi , Philip K. Maini

Collective organisation of patterns into ring-like configurations has been well-studied when patterns are subject to either weak or semi-strong interactions. However, little is known numerically or analytically about their formation when…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Dan J. Hill , Jason J. Bramburger , David J. B. Lloyd

Cross-diffusion systems play a central role in mathematical modelling, in which density-dependent dispersal and multiscale mechanisms can lead to spatial segregation and diffusion-driven instabilities. In several relevant examples,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Brocchieri Elisabetta , Soresina Cinzia

We use a combination of unsupervised clustering and sparsity-promoting inference algorithms to learn locally dominant force balances that explain macroscopic pattern formation in self-organized active particle systems. The self-organized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-28 Dominik Sturm , Suryanarayana Maddu , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

It is proposed that the spatial (and temporal) patterns spontaneously appearing in dissipative systems maximize the energy flow through the pattern forming interface. In other words - the patterns maximize the entropy growth rate in an…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Kestutis Staliunas

Nonlinear dynamics can give rise, via the processes of self-organisation and pattern formation, to the spontaneous manifestation of order in open and complex systems far from equilibrium. Self-organising systems, transforming the inflow of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-03 M. Gidding , T. Janssen , C. S. Davies , A. Kirilyuk

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the pattern formation phenomenon in reaction-diffusion equations coupled with ordinary differential equations. Such systems of equations arise, for example, from modeling of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Grzegorz Karch , Kanako Suzuki

Diffusion models generate structure by progressively transforming noise into data, yet the mechanisms underlying this transition remain poorly understood. In this work, we show that pattern formation in trained diffusion models can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Luca Ambrogioni

Self-organization phenomena in ensembles of self-propelled particles open pathways to the synthesis of new dynamic states not accessible by traditional equilibrium processes. The challenge is to develop a set of principles that facilitate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-26 Bo Zhang , Alexey Snezhko , Andrey Sokolov

This letter seeks to illuminate the profound connection between complexity, self-organization, emergent behaviour, pattern formation, and entropy concepts that are foundational to understanding our universe. By examining these ideas through…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-03-25 Vinesh Vijayan , Karpagavalli K , Sandhiya Jenifer J , Prakash R

This paper is concerned with stochastic reaction-diffusion kinetics governed by the reaction-diffusion master equation. Specifically, the primary goal of this paper is to provide a mechanistic basis of Turing pattern formation that is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-04-23 Yutaka Hori , Shinji Hara

We consider the pattern formation problem in coupled identical systems after the global synchronized state becomes unstable. Based on analytical results relating the coupling strengths and the instability of each spatial mode (pattern) we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Govindan Rangarajan , Yonghong Chen , Mingzhou Ding

Diffusion-driven instability is a fundamental mechanism underlying pattern formation in spatially extended systems. In almost all existing works, diffusion across the links of the underlying network is modeled through scalar weights,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-16 Anna Gallo , Wilfried Segnou , Timoteo Carletti

We investigate dynamics near Turing patterns in reaction-diffusion systems posed on the real line. Linear analysis predicts diffusive decay of small perturbations. We construct a "normal form" coordinate system near such Turing patterns…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Arnd Scheel , Qiliang Wu

Reaction-diffusion processes on networked systems have received mounting attention in the past two decades, and the corresponding theory of network dynamics has been continuously enriched with the advancement of network science. Recently,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-30 Junyuan Shi , Linhe Zhu

Synchronisation and pattern formation have been intensely addressed for systems evolving on static networks. Extending the study to include the inherent ability of the network to adjust over time proved cumbersome and led to conclusions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-25 Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli
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