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The Vicsek model encompasses the paradigm of active dry matter. Motivated by collective behavior of insects in swarms, we have studied finite size effects and criticality in the three dimensional, harmonically confined Vicsek model. We have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-18 R. González-Albaladejo , A. Carpio , L. L. Bonilla

We present a comprehensive study of Vicsek-style self-propelled particle models in two and three space dimensions. The onset of collective motion in such stochastic models with only local alignment interactions is studied in detail and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hugues Chaté , Francesco Ginelli , Guillaume Grégoire , Franck Raynaud

We investigate a class of continuum models for the motion of a two-dimensional biological group under the influence of nonlocal social interactions. The dynamics may be uniquely decomposed into incompressible motion and potential motion.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 C. M. Topaz , A. L. Bertozzi

The structure of a society depends, to some extent, on the incentives of the individuals they are composed of. We study a stylized model of this interplay, that suggests that the more individuals aim at climbing the social hierarchy, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-20 Marco Bardoscia , Giancarlo De Luca , Giacomo Livan , Matteo Marsili , Claudio J. Tessone

Animal motion and flocking are ubiquitous nonequilibrium phenomena that are often studied within active matter. In examples such as insect swarms, macroscopic quantities exhibit power laws with measurable critical exponents and ideas from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-12 R. González-Albaladejo , L. L. Bonilla

In flocking models, the collective motion of self-driven individuals leads to the formation of complex spatiotemporal patterns. The Standard Vicsek Model (SVM) considers individuals that tend to adopt the direction of movement of their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-17 Gabriel Baglietto , Ezequiel V. Albano , Julián Candia

Living many-body systems often exhibit scale-free collective behavior reminiscent of thermal critical phenomena. But their mutual interactions are inevitably retarded due to information processing and delayed actuation. We numerically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-16 Viktor Holubec , Daniel Geiss , Sarah A. M. Loos , Klaus Kroy , Frank Cichos

We consider swarms formed by populations of self-propelled particles with attractive long-range interactions. These swarms represent multistable dynamical systems and can be found either in coherent traveling states or in an incoherent…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-31 A. S. Mikhailov , D. H. Zanette

Collective motion is a fundamental phenomenon in biological swarms. As a framework for studying synchronization in motions, the Vicsek model is simple and efficient, assuming isotropic interactions with a complete field of view. Drawing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-23 Haoshuai Wang , Zhaoqi Dong , Lei Chen

Ecological systems are complex dynamical systems. Modelling efforts on ecosystems' dynamical stability have revealed that population dynamics, being highly nonlinear, can be governed by complex fluctuations. Indeed, experimental and field…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Lluís Alsedà , José Tomás Lázaro , Ricard Solé , Blai Vidiella , Josep Sardanyés

Social hierarchy is important that can not be ignored in human socioeconomic activities and in the animal world. Here we incorporate this factor into the evolutionary game to see what impact it could have on the cooperation outcome. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-02 Rizhou Liang , Jiqiang Zhang , Guozhong Zheng , Li Chen

We analyze order-disorder phase transitions driven by noise that occur in two kinds of network models closely related to the self-propelled model proposed by Vicsek et. al. to describe the collective motion of groups of organisms…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-02-27 Jaime A. Pimentel , Maximino Aldana , Cristián Huepe , Hernán Larralde

We explore a simplified class of models we call swarms, which are inspired by the collective behavior of social insects. We perform a mean-field stability analysis and perform numerical simulations of the model. Several interesting types of…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-28 Erik M. Rauch , Mark M. Millonas , Dante R. Chialvo

We study a system of self-propelled particles whose alignment with neighbors depends on the degree of local alignment. We show that such a local conformity interaction naturally yields a Vicsek-type model with pairwise and three-body…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Iván León , Riccardo Muolo , Hiroya Nakao , Keisuke Taga

We consider a collective behavior model in which individuals try to imitate each others' velocity and have a preferred speed. We show that a phase change phenomenon takes place as diffusion decreases, bringing the system from a "disordered"…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Alethea B. T. Barbaro , José A. Cañizo , José A. Carrillo , Pierre Degond

We introduce a Vicsek-like flocking model with a minimal form of time-delayed orientational interactions, in which the delays occur on a time scale that is well-separated from other time scales in the model. We achieve this by implementing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-19 Charles R. Packard , Daniel M. Sussman

The formation and stability of social hierarchies is a question of general relevance. Here, we propose a simple generalized theoretical model for establishing social hierarchy via pair-wise interactions between individuals and investigate…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-28 Joseph Hickey , Jörn Davidsen

We investigate the transition from incoherence to global collective motion in a three-dimensional swarming model of agents with helical trajectories, subject to noise and global coupling. Without noise this model was recently proposed as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-28 Chunming Zheng , Ralf Toenjes , Arkady Pikovsky

We consider a population of mobile agents able to make noisy observation of the environment and communicate their observation by production and comprehension of signals. Individuals try to align their movement direction with their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Mohammad Salahshour , Shahin Rouhani

An important characteristic of flocks of birds, school of fish, and many similar assemblies of self-propelled particles is the emergence of states of collective order in which the particles move in the same direction. When noise is added…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-19 M. Aldana , V. Dossetti , C. Huepe , V. M. Kenkre , H. Larralde