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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

This paper investigates the conditions for the stability and emergence of patterns in a new three-component reaction-diffusion system. The system describes the coexistence and interaction of water reservoirs, vegetation, and bushfire…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci

Analytically tracking patterns emerging from a small amplitude Turing instability to large amplitude remains a challenge as no general theory exists. In this paper, we consider a three component reaction-diffusion system with one of its…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Christopher Brown , Gianne Derks , Peter van Heijster , David J. B. Lloyd

Confirming Turing's theory of morphogens in developmental processes is challenging, and synthetic biology has opened new avenues for testing Turing's predictions. Synthetic mammalian pattern formation has been recently achieved through a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-22 Mohamed Amine Ouchdiri , Saad Benjelloun , Adnane Saoud , Irene Otero-Muras

Among living organisms, there are species that change their patterns on their body surface during their growth process and those that maintain their patterns. Theoretically, it has been shown that large-scale species do not form distinct…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Shin Nishihara , Toru Ohira

The study of reaction-diffusion systems on networks is of paramount relevance for the understanding of nonlinear processes in systems where the topology is intrinsically discrete, such as the brain. Until now reaction-diffusion systems have…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Lorenzo Giambagli , Lucille Calmon , Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti , Ginestra Bianconi

Using a scheme involving a lifting of a row contraction we introduce a toy model of repeated interactions between quantum systems. In this model there is an outgoing Cuntz scattering system involving two wandering subspaces. We associate to…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Santanu Dey , Kalpesh J. Haria

Game theory has been one of the most successful quantitative concepts to describe social interactions, their strategical aspects, and outcomes. Among the payoff matrix quantifying the result of a social interaction, the interaction…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-22 Wenjian Yu , Dirk Helbing

Turing (or double-diffusive) instabilities describe pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems, and were proposed in 1952 as a potential mechanism behind pattern formation in nature, such as leopard spots and zebra stripes. Because the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-29 M. W. Noble , M. R. Tonks , S. P. Fitzgerald

Emergent collective group processes and capabilities have been studied through analysis of transactive memory, measures of group task performance, and group intelligence, among others. In their approach to collective behaviors, these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-01 Yaneer Bar-Yam , David Kantor

Network data has become widespread, larger, and more complex over the years. Traditional network data is dyadic, capturing the relations among pairs of entities. With the need to model interactions among more than two entities, significant…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Hao Tian , Reza Zafarani

Dynamic systems that consist of a set of interacting elements can be abstracted as temporal networks. Recently, higher-order patterns that involve multiple interacting nodes have been found crucial to indicate domain-specific laws of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yunyu Liu , Jianzhu Ma , Pan Li

In recent decades, it has been emphasized that the evolving structure of networks may be shaped by interaction principles that yield sparse graphs with a vertex degree distribution exhibiting an algebraic tail, and other structural traits…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-01 Dario Borrelli

We studied the effect of nearest pattern interaction on a globally pattern formation in a 2-dimensional space, where patterns are to grow initially from a noise in the presence of periodic supply of energy. Although our approach is general,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Seong-Ok Jeong , Hie-Tae Moon , Tae-Wook Ko

Elucidating the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying neural pattern formation remains an outstanding challenge in Computational Neuroscience. In this paper, we address the issue of understanding the emergence of neural patterns by…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-04 Gregory Dumont , Carmen Oana Tarniceriu

Pattern formation is a visual understanding of the dynamics of complex systems. Patterns arise in many ways, such as the segmentation of animals, bacterial colonies during growth, vegetation, chemical reactions, etc. In most cases, the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Swadesh Pal , Roderick Melnik , Malay Banerjee

Turing's reaction-diffusion theory of morphogenesis has been very successful in understanding macroscopic patterns within complex objects ranging from biological systems to sand dunes. However, this mechanism was never tested against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Yuki Fuseya , Hiroyasu Katsuno , Kamran Behnia , Aharon Kapitulnik

Although higher-order interactions are known to affect the typical state of dynamical processes giving rise to new collective behavior, how they drive the emergence of rare events and fluctuations is still an open problem. We investigate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-09-09 Leonardo Di Gaetano , Giorgio Carugno , Federico Battiston , Francesco Coghi

One challenge of physics is to explain how collective properties arise from microscopic interactions. Indeed, interactions form the building blocks of almost all physical theories and are described by polynomial terms in the action. The…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-03 Claudia Merger , Alexandre René , Kirsten Fischer , Peter Bouss , Sandra Nestler , David Dahmen , Carsten Honerkamp , Moritz Helias

The Turing instability paradigm is revisited in the context of a multispecies diffusion scheme derived from a self-consistent microscopic formulation. The analysis is developed with reference to the case of two species. These latter share…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-07-02 Duccio Fanelli , Claudia Cianci , Francesca Di Patti