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We present a model of soft active particles that leads to a rich array of collective behavior found also in dense biological swarms of bacteria and other unicellular organisms. Our model uses only local interactions, such as Vicsek-type…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-13 Ruben van Drongelen , Anshuman Pal , Carl P. Goodrich , Timon Idema

Distance control in many-particle systems is a fundamental problem in nature. This becomes particularly relevant in systems of active agents, which can sense their environment and react by adjusting their direction of motion. We employ…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Rajendra Singh Negi , Priyanka Iyer , Gerhard Gompper

A one dimensional system made up of a compressible fluid and several mechanical oscillators, coupled to the acoustic field in the fluid, is analyzed for different settings of the oscillators array. The dynamical models are formulated in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Cacciapuoti , R. Figari , A. Posilicano

We study a binary metric-free Vicsek model involving two species of self-propelled particles aligning with their Voronoi neighbors, focusing on a weakly nonreciprocal regime, where species $A$ aligns with both $A$ and $B$, but species $B$…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-04 Tian Tang , Yu Duan , Yu-qiang Ma

We investigate the emergence of cohesive flocking in open, boundless space using a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework. Agents integrate positional and orientational information from their closest topological neighbours and learn…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-02 Martino Brambati , Antonio Celani , Marco Gherardi , Francesco Ginelli

New theoretical and numerical analysis of the one-dimensional contact process with quenched disorder are presented. We derive new scaling relations, different from their counterparts in the pure model, which are valid not only at the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 Raffaele Cafiero , Andrea Gabrielli , Miguel A. Muñoz

The Vicsek model has long stood as a pivotal framework in exploring collective behavior and self-organization, captivating the scientific community with its compelling dynamics. However, understanding how noise influences synchronization…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Wei Su , Yongguang Yu , Ge Chen

This paper investigates multi-agent frequencybased patrolling of intersecting, circle graphs under conditions where graph nodes have non-uniform visitation requirements and agents have limited ability to communicate. The task is modeled as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-02-10 Tao Mao , Laura Ray

Like other social animals and biological systems, human groups constantly exchange information. Network models provide a way of quantifying this process by representing the pathways of information propagation between individuals. Existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Niek Kerssies , Jose Segovia Martin , James Winters

We demonstrate from a fundamental perspective the physical and mathematical origins of band warping and band non-parabolicity in electronic and vibrational structures. Remarkably, we find a robust presence and connection with pairs of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Lorenzo Resca , Nicholas A. Mecholsky , Ian L. Pegg

Agent-based models are a natural choice for modeling complex social systems. In such models simple stochastic interaction rules for a large population of individuals can lead to emergent dynamics on the macroscopic scale, for instance a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-02 Luzie Helfmann , Jobst Heitzig , Péter Koltai , Jürgen Kurths , Christof Schütte

We study a system of self-propelled agents in which each agent has a part of omnidirectional or panoramic view of its sensor disc, the field of vision of the agent in this case is only a sector of a disc bounded by two radii and the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-05-20 Bao-Mei Tian , Han-Xin Yang , Wei Li , Wen-Xu Wang , Bing-Hong Wang , Tao Zhou

Consider a small group of mobile agents whose goal is to locate a certain cell in a two-dimensional infinite grid. The agents operate in an asynchronous environment, where in each discrete time step, an arbitrary subset of the agents…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Sebastian Brandt , Jara Uitto , Roger Wattenhofer

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…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-02 Wenhao Yu , Zinuo Li , Liufang Xu

Scientists have observed and studied diffusive waves in contexts as disparate as population genetics and cell signaling. Often, these waves are propagated by discrete entities or agents, such as individual cells in the case of cell…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-07-21 Paul Dieterle , Ariel Amir

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

Coherent oscillatory activity can arise spontaneously as a result of increased coupling in a system of excitable and passive cells, each being quiescent in isolation. This can potentially explain the appearance of spontaneous rhythmic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-12-17 Jinshan Xu , Rajeev Singh , Nicolas Garnier , Sitabhra Sinha , Alain Pumir

A number of biological processes, such as embryo development, cancer metastasis or wound healing, rely on cells moving in concert. The mechanisms leading to the emergence of coordinated motion remain however largely unexplored. Although…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2011-08-23 Alexandre J Kabla

The emergence of order from initial disordered movement in self-propelled collective motion is an instance of nonequilibrium phase transition, which is known to be first order in the thermodynamic limit. Here, we introduce a multiplicative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-30 Fatemeh Haghsheno , Mohammad Mehrafarin

Complementarity is one of the main features underlying the interactions in biological and biochemical systems. Inspired by those systems we propose a model for the dynamical evolution of a system composed by agents that interact due to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Copelli , R. M. Zorzenon dos Santos , J. S. Sa Martins