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We consider a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation derived from a Cucker-Smale model for flocking with noise. There is a known phase transition depending on the noise between a regime with a unique stationary solution which is isotropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Alexandre Surin

We consider a system of globally coupled rotors, described by a set of Langevin equations, and examine stability of the incoherent phase. The corresponding Fokker-Planck equation, providing a unified description of microcanonical and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Y. Choi , J. Choi

Many classical examples of models of self-organized dynamics, including the Cucker-Smale, Motsch-Tadmor, multi-species, and several others, include an alignment force that is based upon density-weighted averaging protocol. Those protocols…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Roman Shvydkoy

We introduce a minimal model for a collection of self-propelled apolar active particles, also called as `active nematic', on a two-dimensional substrate and study the order-disorder transition with the variation of density. The particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-18 Rakesh Das , Manoranjan Kumar , Shradha Mishra

The intermittent on-off switching of feedback control is considered as a major mechanism of postural stabilization during human quiet standing, which can be modeled by switched-type hybrid stochastic delay differential equations with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Yasuyuki Suzuki , Keigo Togame , Akihiro Nakamura , Taishin Nomura

The steady states of three families of one-dimensional non-equilibrium models with open boundaries, first proposed in [22], are studied using a matrix product formalism. It is shown that their associated quadratic algebras have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Farhad H Jafarpour

The dynamics and the steady states of a point-like tracer particle immersed in a confined critical fluid are studied. The fluid is modeled field-theoretically in terms of an order parameter (concentration or density field) obeying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-03 Markus Gross

A granular system confined in a quasi two-dimensional box that is vertically vibrated can transit to an absorbing state in which all particles bounce vertically in phase with the box, with no horizontal motion. In principle, this state can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Baptiste Néel , Ignacio Rondini , Alex Turzillo , Nicolás Mujica , Rodrigo Soto

In this paper we develop a model for nematic alignment of self-propelled rods interacting through binary collisions. We avoid phenomenological descriptions of rod interaction in favor of rigorously using a set of microscopic-level rules.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 Misha Perepelitsa , Ilya Timofeyev , Patrick Murphy , Oleg A. Igoshin

We characterize the order-disorder transition in a model lipid bilayer using molecular dynamics simulations. We find that the ordered phase is hexatic. In particular, in-plane structures possess a finite concentration of 5-7 disclination…

We study a weakly non-linear Fokker-Planck equation with BGK heat thermostats in a spatially bounded domain with conservative Maxwell boundary conditions, presenting a space-dependent accommodation coefficient and a space-dependent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-11 J Evans , R Medina

The steady state of the Fokker-Planck equation corresponding to a density dependent one-step process is approximated by a suitable normal distribution. Starting from the master equations of the process, written in terms of the time…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Peter L. Simon , Eszter Sikolya

In this paper, we study the dynamics of a system of $n$ coupled, self-propelled particles: $\ddot r_k = (\alpha-\beta |\dot r_k|^2)\dot r_k - \frac{\gamma}{n}\sum_{m=1}^n(r_k-r_m)$, $r_k\in \mathbb R^2.$ Numerical experiments indicate that,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Carl Kolon , Constantine Medynets , Irina Popovici

We consider the influence of correlated noise on the stability of synchronisation of oscillators on a general network using the Kuramoto model for coupled phases $\theta_i$. Near the fixed point $\theta_i \approx \theta_j \ \forall i,j$ the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-29 Mathew Zuparic , Alexander C. Kalloniatis

We study the stationary states of an over-damped active Brownian particle (ABP) in a harmonic trap in two dimensions, via mathematical calculations and numerical simulations. In addition to translational diffusion, the ABP self-propels with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-27 Urvashi Nakul , Manoj Gopalakrishnan

There has been recent interest in the relaxational modes of small-scale fully connected systems of aligning self-propelled particles (Spera et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 132}: 078301 (2024)). We revisit the classical connection between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-25 Tara Steinhöfel , Horst-Holger Boltz , Thomas Ihle

We consider the (noisy) Kuramoto model, that is a population of N oscillators, or rotators, with mean-field interaction. Each oscillator has its own randomly chosen natural frequency (quenched disorder) and it is stirred by Brownian motion.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-11-16 Giambattista Giacomin , Eric Luçon , Christophe Poquet

Motivated by a phenomenon of phase transition in a model of alignment of self-propelled particles, we obtain a kinetic mean-field equation which is nothing else than the Doi equation (also called Smoluchowski equation) with dipolar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-18 Amic Frouvelle , Jian-Guo Liu

The Constantin-Lax-Majda (CLM) model and the De Gregorio model which is a modification of the CLM model are well-known for their ability to emulate the behavior of the 3D Euler equations, particularly their potential to develop finite-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Jie Guo , Quansen Jiu

We consider the Czir\'ok model for collective motion of locusts along a one-dimensional torus. In the model, each agent's velocity locally interacts with other agents' velocities in the system, and there is also exogenous randomness to each…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Josselin Garnier , George Papanicolaou , Tzu-Wei Yang