English
Related papers

Related papers: From Global Flocking to Local Clustering: Interpla…

200 papers

Self-organization is the generation of order out of local interactions in non-equilibrium [1]. It is deeply connected to all fields of science from physics, chemistry to biology where functional living structures self-assemble[2] and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-24 Utsab Khadka , Viktor Holubec , Haw Yang , Frank Cichos

We study a simple swarming model on a two-dimensional lattice where the self-propelled particles exhibit a tendency to align ferromagnetically. Volume exclusion effects are present: particles can only hop to a neighboring node if the node…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Fernando Peruani , Tobias Klauss , Andreas Deutsch , Anja Voss-Boehme

Flocking is a coordinated collective behavior that results from local sensing between individual agents that have a tendency to orient towards each other. Flocking is common among animal groups and might also be useful in robotic swarms. In…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Daniel Y. Fu , Emily S. Wang , Peter M. Krafft , Barbara J. Grosz

Collective motion of locally interacting agents is found ubiquitously throughout nature. The inability to probe individuals has driven longstanding interest in the development of methods for inferring the underlying interactions. In the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-23 Pei Tan , Christopher E Miles

We investigate the collective dynamics of self-propelled droplets, confined in a one dimensional micro-fluidic channel. On one hand, neighboring droplets align and form large trains of droplets moving in the same direction. On the other…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-14 Pierre Illien , Charlotte de Blois , Yang Liu , Marjolein N. van der Linden , Olivier Dauchot

We study the behaviour of catalytically active droplets in multi-component conserved mixtures affected by noise. Working in the thin interface limit, we analytically determine the state diagram of the system, characterized by multiple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-01 Jacopo Romano , Martin Kjøllesdal Johnsrud , Benoît Mahault , Ramin Golestanian

We construct the temporal network using the two-dimensional active particle systems which are described by the Vicsek model. The bursts of the interevent times for a specific pair of particles are investigated numerically. We find that for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-18 Wei Zhong , Youjin Deng , Daxing Xiong

Collective behavior in animals has long been modeled through self-propelled particle models, which reproduce striking group-level phenomena through abstract interaction forces. Yet these models are fundamentally descriptive: they leave open…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Vito Mengers , Bao Duc Cao , Oliver Brock

We consider large systems of stochastic interacting particles through discontinuous kernels which has vision geometrical constrains. We rigorously derive a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck type of kinetic mean-field equation from the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-12 Young-Pil Choi , Samir Salem

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 perform a numerical analysis of a recent introduced model for describing collective movement in alarmed animals groups. This model, derived from a position-based interaction and a limited attention field, displays a non-equilibrium phase…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 A. M. Calvão , E. Brigatti

We present large-scale molecular dynamics simulations to study the free evolution of granular gases. Initially, the density of particles is homogeneous and the velocity follows a Maxwell-Boltzmann (MB) distribution. The system cools down…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-21 Prasenjit Das , Sanjay Puri , Moshe Schwartz

We study clustering in a stochastic system of particles sliding down a fluctuating surface in one and two dimensions. In steady state, the density-density correlation function is a scaling function of separation and system size.This scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mustansir Barma

We investigate the ordering properties of vertically-vibrated monolayers of granular cylinders in a circular container at high packing fraction. In line with previous works by other groups, we identify liquid-crystalline ordering behaviour…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-16 Miguel Gonzalez-Pinto , Florentino Borondo , Yuri Martinez-Raton , Enrique Velasco

A Collision-Avoiding flocking particle system proposed in [8] is studied in this paper. The global wellposedness of its corresponding Vlasov-type kinetic equation is proved. As a corollary of the global stability result, the mean field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-15 Rong Yang , Li Chen

In collective motion, perceptually-limited individuals move in an ordered manner, without centralized control. The perception of each individual is highly localized, as is its ability to interact with others. While natural collective motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Peleg Shefi , Amir Ayali , Gal A. Kaminka

Collective motion in active matter is usually modelled through instantaneous local alignment, where each agent updates its heading from the current configuration of its neighbours. Many biological and engineered agents, however, possess…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-11 Jyotiranjan Beuria

We show that a scaling approach successfully characterizes clustering and intermittency in space and time, in systems of noninteracting particles driven by fluctuating surfaces. We study both the steady state and the approach to it, for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-15 Tapas Singha , Mustansir Barma

Inspired by motile cells in tissue formation, we find that active systems of self-aligning adhesive particles undergo ballistic aggregation through a flocking transition. This kinetic regime emerges when the cluster persistence length grows…

We propose a large-scale scaling viewpoint for deriving mesoscopic dynamics from interacting particle systems and apply it to the Cucker--Smale flocking model. In contrast with the classical mean-field regime leading to the Vlasov-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Ruicheng Cheng , Seung-Yeal Ha , Jaemoon Lee , Zhenfu Wang