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There is growing interest in multi-species active matter systems with reciprocal and non-reciprocal interactions. While such interactions have been explored in continuous symmetry models, less is known about multi-species discrete-symmetry…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-01 Matthieu Mangeat , Swarnajit Chatterjee , Jae Dong Noh , Heiko Rieger

Animal groups frequently move in a highly organized manner, as represented by flocks of birds and schools of fish. Despite being an everyday occurrence, we do not yet fully understand how this works. What type of social interactions between…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-23 Daniel Strömbom , Tasnia Hassan , W. Hunter Greis , Alice Antia

We consider the two-species Vicsek model (TSVM) consisting of two kinds of self-propelled particles, A and B, that tend to align with particles from the same species and to antialign with the other. The model shows a flocking transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-02 Swarnajit Chatterjee , Matthieu Mangeat , Chul-Ung Woo , Heiko Rieger , 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

We investigate the effects of long-range social interactions in flocking dynamics by studying the dynamics of a scalar model of collective motion embedded in a complex network representing a pattern of social interactions, as observed in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-23 M. Carmen Miguel , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

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

We investigate the collective dynamics of self-propelled particles able to probe and anticipate the orientation of their neighbors. We show that a simple anticipation strategy hinders the emergence of homogeneous flocking patterns. Yet,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Alexandre Morin , Jean-Baptiste Caussin , Christophe Eloy , Denis Bartolo

We discuss biologically inspired, inherently non-equilibrium self-propelled particle models, in which the particles interact with their neighbours by choosing at each time step the local average direction of motion. We summarize some of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andras Czirok , Tamas Vicsek

Cooperative transport is a striking phenomenon where multiple agents join forces to transit a payload too heavy for the individual. While social animals such as ants are routinely observed to coordinate transport at scale, reproducing the…

Random walkers characterized by random positions and random velocities lead to normal diffusion. A random walk was originally proposed by Einstein to model Brownian motion and to demonstrate the existence of atoms and molecules. Such a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 Daniel Escaff , Raul Toral , Christian Van den Broeck , Katja Lindenberg

We consider a self-propelled particle system which has been used to describe certain types of collective motion of animals, such as fish schools and bird flocks. Interactions between particles are specified by means of a pairwise potential,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-05 J. A. Carrillo , S. Martin , V. Panferov

We present a general framework for modeling a wide selection of flocking scenarios under free boundary conditions. Several variants have been considered - including examples for the widely observed behavior of hierarchically interacting…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-23 Yongnan Jia , Tamas Vicsek

We present a comprehensive study of Vicsek-style self-propelled particle models in two and three space dimensions. The onset of collective motion in such stochastic models with only local alignment interactions is studied in detail and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hugues Chaté , Francesco Ginelli , Guillaume Grégoire , Franck Raynaud

Robots sometimes have to work together with a mixture of partially-aligned or conflicting goals. Flocking - coordinated motion through cohesion, alignment, and separation - traditionally assumes uniform desired inter-agent distances. Many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Peter Travis Jardine , Sidney Givigi

Fish, birds, insects and robots frequently swim or fly in groups. During their 3 dimensional collective motion, these agents do not stop, they avoid collisions by strong short-range repulsion, and achieve group cohesion by weak long-range…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-04 Illes J. Farkas , Shuo-Hong Wang

We study the large-time behavior of continuum alignment dynamics based on Cucker-Smale (CS)-type interactions which involve short-range kernels, that is, communication kernels with support much smaller than the diameter of the crowd. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Javier Morales , Jan Peszek , Eitan Tadmor

A mathematical theory on flocking serves the foundation for several ubiquitous multi-agent phenomena in biology, ecology, sensor networks, economy, as well as social behavior like language emergence and evolution. Directly inspired by the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Jackie , Shen

By introducing a predictive mechanism with small-world connections, we propose a new motion protocol for self-driven flocks. The small-world connections are implemented by randomly adding long-range interactions from the leader to a few…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-02-03 Hai-Tao Zhang , Michael Z. Q. Chen , Tao Zhou

The nature of the phase transition in a system of self-propelling particles has been extensively studied during the last few decades. A theoretical model was proposed by T. Vicsek, {\it et. al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 75}, 1226 (1995)] with…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-09-21 P. The Nguyen , Sang-Hee Lee , V. Thanh Ngo

In active matter, the lack of momentum conservation makes non-reciprocal interactions the rule rather than the exception. They lead to a rich set of emerging behaviors that are hard to account for and to predict starting from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-06 Alberto Dinelli , Jérémy O'Byrne , Agnese Curatolo , Yongfeng Zhao , Peter Sollich , Julien Tailleur