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A class of systems is considered, where immobile species associated to distinct patches, the nodes of a network, interact both locally and at a long-range, as specified by an (interaction) adjacency matrix. Non local interactions are…

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Complex systems with global interactions tend to be stable if interactions between components are sufficiently homogeneous. In biological systems, which often have small copy numbers and interactions mediated by diffusing agents, noise and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Fabrizio Olmeda , Steffen Rulands

The presence of one or more species at some spatial locations but not others is a central matter in ecology. This phenomenon is related to ecological pattern formation. Nonlocal interactions can be considered as one of the mechanisms…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-29 Ozgur Aydogmus

Non-reciprocal interactions are a defining feature of many complex systems, biological, ecological, and technological, often pushing them far from equilibrium and enabling rich dynamical responses. These asymmetries can arise at multiple…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Anna Poggialini , Serena Di Santo , Pablo Villegas , Andrea Gabrielli , Miguel A. Muñoz

Out of equilibrium, the lack of reciprocity is the rule rather than the exception. Non-reciprocal interactions occur, for instance, in networks of neurons, directional growth of interfaces, and synthetic active materials. While wave…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-20 Michel Fruchart , Ryo Hanai , Peter B. Littlewood , Vincenzo Vitelli

Mechanisms of pattern formation---of which the Turing instability is an archetype---constitute an important class of dynamical processes occurring in biological, ecological and chemical systems. Recently, it has been shown that the Turing…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-19 Sayat Mimar , Mariamo Mussa Juane , Juyong Park , Alberto P. Munuzuri , Gourab Ghoshal

Nonreciprocity, a hallmark of nonequilibrium systems, can generate dynamics not possible near thermodynamic equilibrium, including oscillatory and rotating patterns. The onset of temporal oscillations is often evident in linearized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-21 Daniel Evans , Yizhi Shen , Ahmad K. Omar

A hallmark of living systems is the ability to employ a common set of versatile building blocks that can self-organize into a multitude of different structures, in a way that can be controlled with minimal cost. This capability can only be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-26 Saeed Osat , Ramin Golestanian

Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the spontaneous generation of self-organized patterns, hypothesised to play a role in the formation of many of the magnificent patterns observed in Nature. In several cases of interest, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Riccardo Muolo , Malbor Asllani , Duccio Fanelli , Philip K. Maini , Timoteo Carletti

The main objective of this article is to study the order-disorder phase transition and pattern formation for systems with long-range repulsive interactions. The main focus is on the Cahn-Hilliard model with a nonlocal term in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-21 Honghu Liu , Taylan Sengul , Shouhong Wang , Pingwen Zhang

Systems of dynamical interactions between competing species can be used to model many complex systems, and can be mathematically described by {\em random} networks. Understanding how patterns of activity arise in such systems is important…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-01-21 Nick McCullen , Thomas Wagenknecht

Ecosystems are formed by networks of species and their interactions. Traditional models of such interactions assume a constant interaction strength between a given pair of species. However, there is often significant trait variation among…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-03 Zachary Jackson , BingKan Xue

Rhythmic activities that alternate between coherent and incoherent phases are ubiquitous in chemical, ecological, climate, or neural systems. Despite their importance, general mechanisms for their emergence are little understood. In order…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-06-01 Max Thiele , Rico Berner , Peter A. Tass , Eckehard Schöll , Serhiy Yanchuk

How large ecosystems can create and maintain the remarkable biodiversity we see in nature is probably one of the biggest open questions in science, attracting attention from different fields, from Theoretical Ecology to Mathematics and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-03 Violeta Calleja-Solanas , Nagi Khalil , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Emilio Hernández-García , Sandro Meloni

We analyse the stability of large, linear dynamical systems of variables that interact through a fully connected random matrix and have inhomogeneous growth rates. We show that in the absence of correlations between the coupling strengths,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-29 Samuel Cure , Izaak Neri

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

In recent years, nonreciprocally coupled systems have received growing attention. Previous work has shown that the interplay of nonreciprocal coupling and Goldstone modes can drive the emergence of temporal order such as traveling waves. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-04-23 Fridtjof Brauns , M. Cristina Marchetti

The process of pattern formation for a multi-species model anchored on a time varying network is studied. A non homogeneous perturbation superposed to an homogeneous stable fixed point can amplify, as follows a novel mechanism of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 Julien Petit , Ben Lauwens , Duccio Fanelli , Timoteo Carletti

We perform experiments and phase model simulations with a ring network of oscillatory electrochemical reactions to explore the effect of random connections and non-isochronocity of the interactions on the pattern formation. A few additional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-03-23 Michael Sebek , Ralf Tönjes , István Z. Kiss

Nonreciprocal interactions violating Newton's third law are common in a plethora of nonequilibrium situations ranging from predator-prey systems to the swarming of birds and effective colloidal interactions under flow. While many recent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-07 Zhi-Feng Huang , Michael te Vrugt , Jonas Mayer Martins , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen
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