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We study a new flocking model which has the versatility to capture the physically realistic qualitative behavior of the Motsch-Tadmor model, while also retaining the entropy law, which lends to a similar 1D global well-posedness analysis to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Roman Shvydkoy , Trevor Teolis

A model of clustering dynamics is proposed for a population of spatially distributed active rotators. A transition from excitable to oscillatory dynamics is induced by the increase of the local density of active rotators. It is interpreted…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-12 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Satomi Maeyama

This paper presents a position-based flocking model for interacting agents, balancing cohesion-separation and alignment to achieve stable collective motion. The model modifies a position-velocity-based approach by approximating velocity…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Hossein B. Jond

Understanding collective self-organization in active matter, such as bird flocks and fish schools, remains a grand challenge in physics. Interactions that induce alignment are essential for flocking; however, alignment alone is generally…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-01 Julian Giraldo-Barreto , Viktor Holubec

Stochastic resonance is a counter-intuitive concept[1,2], ; the addition of noise to a noisy system induces coherent amplification of its response. First suggested as a mechanism for the cyclic recurrence of ice ages, stochastic resonance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. L. Badzey , P. Mohanty

We numerically demonstrate a network of coupled oscillators that can learn to solve a classification task from a set of examples -- performing both training and inference through the nonlinear evolution of the system. We accomplish this by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Daan de Bos , Marc Serra-Garcia

We propose a hydrodynamic description of the homogeneous ordered phase of polar flocks. Starting from symmetry principles, we construct the appropriate equation for the dynamics of the Goldstone mode associated with the broken rotational…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-07 Hugues Chaté , Alexandre Solon

Flocks of birds, schools of fish, insects swarms are examples of coordinated motion of a group that arises spontaneously from the action of many individuals. Here, we study flocking behavior from the viewpoint of multi-agent reinforcement…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-08 Mihir Durve , Fernando Peruani , Antonio Celani

Humans and animals developed a sophisticated motor control apparatus and there is much evidence that it has a modular structure. The modularity offers a range of benefits, e.g. ability to learn dissociable motion styles without interference…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Kirill Makukhin

The metriplectic formalism is useful for describing complete dynamical systems which conserve energy and produce entropy. This creates challenges for model reduction, as the elimination of high-frequency information will generally not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-28 Anthony Gruber , Max Gunzburger , Lili Ju , Zhu Wang

We formulate a relaxed linear elastic micromorphic continuum model with symmetric Cauchy force-stresses and curvature contribution depending only on the micro-dislocation tensor. Our relaxed model is still able to fully describe rotation of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Patrizio Neff , Ionel-Dumitrel Ghiba , Angela Madeo , Luca Placidi , Giuseppe Rosi

Natural flocks need to cope with various forms of heterogeneities, for instance, their composition, motility, interaction, or environmental factors. Here, we study the effects of such heterogeneities on the flocking dynamics of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-15 Aditya Kumar Dutta , Matthieu Mangeat , Heiko Rieger , Raja Paul , Swarnajit Chatterjee

We show that spatial quenched disorder affects polar active matter in ways more complex and far-reaching than believed heretofore. Using simulations of the 2D Vicsek model subjected to random couplings or a disordered scattering field, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yu Duan , Benoît Mahault , Yu-qiang Ma , Xia-qing Shi , Hugues Chaté

Synchronization is a widespread phenomenon observed in physical, biological, and social networks, which persists even under the influence of strong noise. Previous research on oscillators subject to common noise has shown that noise can…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-02 Zachary G. Nicolaou , Michael Sebek , Istvan Z. Kiss , Adilson E. Motter

We investigate the memory effects under oscillatory shear deformation of amorphous solids through computer simulations. Applications of shear deformations in all orthogonal directions show that encoded memories via this protocol are more…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-20 Monoj Adhikari , Rishabh Sharma , Smarajit Karmakar

Two hallmarks of non-equilibrium systems, from active colloids to animal herds, are agents motility and nonreciprocal interactions. Their interplay creates feedback loops leading to complex spatiotemporal dynamics crucial to understand and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-17 David Martin , Daniel Seara , Yael Avni , Michel Fruchart , Vincenzo Vitelli

Rotobreathers in the chain of coupled linearly elastic rotators are analyzed. Each rotator is a particle connected by a massless elastic rod with a frictionless pivot; it has two degrees of freedom, length and angle of rotation. The rods of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-09-22 Alexander V. Savin , Ilsiya R. Sunagatova , Sergey V. Dmitriev

Animal swarms displaying a variety of typical flocking patterns would not exist without underlying safe, optimal and stable dynamics of the individuals. The emergence of these universal patterns can be efficiently reconstructed with…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-17 Csaba Virágh , Gábor Vásárhelyi , Norbert Tarcai , Tamás Szörényi , Gergő Somorjai , Tamás Nepusz , Tamás Vicsek

Non-equilibrium systems display memory, a dependence not merely on their present environment but on previously applied fields. Multistable systems such as spin glasses, martensites and granular matter have exponentially many microstates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-25 Nathaniel Croce , Hossein Salahshoor , D. Zeb Rocklin

In this paper, we study a nonlinear system of first order partial differential equations describing the macroscopic behavior of an ensemble of interacting self-propelled rigid bodies. Such system may be relevant for the modelling of bird…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Pierre Degond , Amic Frouvelle , Sara Merino-Aceituno , Ariane Trescases