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We present a minimal non-Hermitian model where a topologically nontrivial complex energy spectrum is induced by inter-particle interactions. Our model consists of a one-dimensional chain with a dynamical non-Hermitian gauge field with…

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Collective behaviors such as swarming and flocking emerge from simple, decentralized interactions in biological systems. Existing models, such as Vicsek and Cucker-Smale, lack collision avoidance, whereas the Olfati-Saber model imposes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hossein B. Jond

A theory of relative species abundance on sparsely-connected networks is presented by investigating the replicator dynamics with symmetric interactions. Sparseness of a network involves difficulty in analyzing the fixed points of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Tomoyuki Obuchi , Yoshiyuki Kabashima , Kei Tokita

The flocking of self-propelled particles in heterogeneous environments is relevant to both natural and artificial systems. The Vicsek model is a canonical choice to investigate such systems due to the minimal number of parameters required…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Eighdi Aung , Nicole Abaid , James E. McClure

The dynamics of a packages diffusion process within a selforganized network is analytically studied by means of an extended $f$% -spin facilitated kinetic Ising model (Fredrickson-Andersen model) using a Fock-space representation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Pigorsch , S. Trimper

Evolutionary and ecosystem dynamics are often treated as different processes --operating at separate timescales-- even if evidence reveals that rapid evolutionary changes can feed back into ecological interactions. A recent long-term field…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-04 Paula Villa Martín , Jorge Hidalgo , Rafael Rubio de Casas , Miguel A. Muñoz

We report a motility-induced pinning transition in the active Ising model for a self-propelled particle system with discrete symmetry. This model was known to exhibit a liquid-gas type flocking phase transition, but a recent study reveals…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-09 Chul-Ung Woo , Jae Dong Noh

We study the long-time hydrodynamic behavior of systems of multi-species which arise from agent-based description of alignment dynamics. The interaction between species is governed by an array of symmetric communication kernels. We prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Jingcheng Lu , Eitan Tadmor

In ecological studies of pattern formation, models of the competitive-diffusion type are generally singularly perturbed, and the numerical approximation of such models is challenging. In this paper, we present finite element discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Xianping Li , Woinshet D. Mergia , Kailash C. Patidar

We introduce an interacting particle system in which two families of reflected diffusions interact in a singular manner near a deterministic interface $I$. This system can be used to model the transport of positive and negative charges in a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Zhen-Qing Chen , Wai-Tong Fan

Static nonreciprocal forces between particles generically drive persistent motion reminiscent of self-propulsion. Here, we demonstrate that reciprocity-breaking fluctuations about a reciprocal mean coupling strength are sufficient to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-18 Luca Cocconi , Henry Alston , Thibault Bertrand

We study the active 4-state Potts model (APM) on the square lattice in which active particles have four internal states corresponding to the four directions of motion. A local alignment rule inspired by the ferromagnetic 4-state Potts model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-31 Swarnajit Chatterjee , Matthieu Mangeat , Raja Paul , Heiko Rieger

Pair interactions between active particles need not follow Newton's third law. In this work we propose a continuum model of pattern formation due to non-reciprocal interaction between multiple species of scalar active matter. The classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-21 Suropriya Saha , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Ramin Golestanian

We study nonequilibrium dynamical models with two absorbing states: interacting monomer-dimer models, probabilistic cellular automata models, nonequilibrium kinetic Ising models. These models exhibit a continuous phase transition from an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 WonMuk Hwang , Sungchul Kwon , Heungwon Park , Hyunggyu Park

We characterize the dynamical state of many-body bosonic and fermionic many-body models with inter-site Gaussian couplings, on-site non-Gaussian interactions and local dissipation comprising incoherent particle loss, particle gain, and…

We introduce an interacting particle system that models the spread of an epidemic in terms of heterogeneous diffusive dynamics, rather than exogenous contact and transmission rates at the population level as in classical compartmental…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Eliana Fausti , Andreas Sojmark

Systems of interacting fermions can give rise to ground states whose correlations become effectively free-fermion-like in the thermodynamic limit, as shown by Baxter for a class of integrable models that include the one-dimensional XYZ…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-21 Gabriel Matos , Andrew Hallam , Aydin Deger , Zlatko Papić , Jiannis Pachos

We study an alternative approach to model the dynamical behaviors of biological feedback loop, that is, a type-dependent spin system, this class of stochastic models was introduced by Fern\'andez et. al (2009), and are useful since take…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Manuel González-Navarrete

We aim at an understanding of the dynamical properties of a periodically driven damped harmonic oscillator coupled to a Random Field Ising Model (RFIM) at zero temperature, which is capable to show complex hysteresis. The system is a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-25 Paul Zech , Andreas Otto , Günter Radons