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The mean-field dynamics of a collection of stochastic agents with local versus nonlocal interactions is studied via analytically soluble models. The nonlocal interactions result from a barycentric modulation of the observation range of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-06-01 Max-Olivier Hongler , Roger Filliger , Olivier Gallay

This paper studies the clustering behavior of weakly interacting diffusions under the influence of sufficiently localized attractive interaction potentials on the one-dimensional torus. We describe how this clustering behavior is closely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Nicolai Gerber , Rishabh S. Gvalani , Martin Hairer , Grigorios A. Pavliotis , André Schlichting

We investigate systems of self-propelled particles with alignment interaction. Compared to previous work, the force acting on the particles is not normalized and this modification gives rise to phase transitions from disordered states at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-25 Pierre Degond , Amic Frouvelle , Jian-Guo Liu

A hallmark in natural systems, self-organization often stems from very simple interaction rules between individual agents. While single-species self-propelled particle (SPP) systems are well understood, the behavior of binary mixtures with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-05 Eloise Lardet , Letian Chen , Thibault Bertrand

This article analyzes the formulation of space-time continuous hyperbolic hydrodynamic models for systems of interacting particles moving on a lattice, by connecting their local stochastic lattice dynamics to the formulation of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-11 Massimiliano Giona

A thermodynamically consistent particle-based model for fluid dynamics with continuous velocities and a non-ideal equation of state is presented. Excluded volume interactions are modeled by means of biased stochastic multiparticle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Ihle , Erkan Tuzel , Daniel M. Kroll

A wide range of phenomena in the natural and social sciences involve large systems of interacting particles, including plasmas, collections of galaxies, coupled oscillators, cell aggregations, and economic ``agents'. Kinetic methods for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-05 Paul C Bressloff

We introduce a stochastic agent-based model for the flocking dynamics of self-propelled particles that exhibit velocity-alignment interactions with neighbours within their field of view. The stochasticity in the dynamics of the model arises…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Trilochan Bagarti , Shakti N. Menon

Motivated by a general principle governing regulation mechanisms in biological cells, we investigate a general interaction scheme between different populations of particles and specific particles, referred to as agents. Assuming that each…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Vincent Fromion , Philippe Robert , Jana Zaherddine

Flocking is ubiquitous in nature and emerges due to short- or long-range alignment interactions among self-propelled agents. Two unfriendly species that antialign or even interact nonreciprocally show more complex collective phenomena,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-17 Jiwon Choi , Jae Dong Noh , Heiko Rieger

We examine a density-independent modification of the Vicsek model in which a particle interacts with neighbors defined by Delaunay triangulation. To feasibly simulate the model, an algorithm for repairing the triangulation over time was…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-06 Daniel Schubring , Paul R. Ohmann

We study a system of interacting diffusions that models chemotaxis of biological cells or microorganisms (referred to as particles) in a chemical field that is dynamically modified through the collective contributions from the particles.…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Amarjit Budhiraja , Wai-Tong Louis Fan

Many biological systems form colonies at high density. Passive granular systems will be jammed at such densities, yet for the survival of biological systems it is crucial that they are dynamic. We construct a phase diagram for a system of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-13 Daniel R. McCusker , Ruben van Drongelen , Timon Idema

A multi-scale meshfree particle method for macroscopic mean field approximations of generalized interacting particle models is developed and investigated. The method is working in a uniform way for large and small interaction radii. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-10 Axel Klar , Sudarshan Tiwari

We study an agent-based model of self-propelled particles with a velocity-dependent alignment rule. This interaction is orientation weighted and acts along the line connecting neighboring particles. Tuning the alignment strength produces…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-19 Bohdan Dobosh , Alexander Yakimenko

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

This note is a companion article to the recent paper L\"ocherbach, Loukianova, Marini (2024). We consider mean field systems of interacting particles. Each particle jumps with a jump rate depending on its position. When jumping, a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Dasha Loukianova , Eva Löcherbach

The theory of non-gravitational interaction between a pressure-less dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE) is a phenomenologically rich cosmological domain which has received magnificent attention in the community. In the present article we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 Sudip Halder , Jaume de Haro , Tapan Saha , Supriya Pan

Recently, we proposed a self-propelled particle model with competing alignment interactions: nearby particles tend to align their velocities whereas they anti-align their direction of motion with particles which are further away [R.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-02 Robert Großmann , Pawel Romanczuk , Markus Bär , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

The mean-field dynamics of a particle in a random, but short range correlated potential, offers the opportunity of observing both aging and driven stationary regimes. Using a geometrical approach previously introduced by the author, we…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Fabrice Thalmann