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Kinetically constrained spin systems play an important role in understanding key properties of the dynamics of slowly relaxing materials, such as glasses. So far kinetic constraints have been introduced in idealised models aiming to capture…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-09 B. Everest , M. Marcuzzi , J. P. Garrahan , I. Lesanovsky

A complex system is a system composed of many interacting parts, often called agents, which displays collective behavior that does not follow trivially from the behaviors of the individual parts. Examples include condensed matter systems,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-08 M. E. J. Newman

Generally, multi-particle spring system is an important and widely used physical model. However, with the increase of the number of particles, the difficulty of solving the kinematic trajectory of the particles becomes more and more…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Xiao-Yun Wang , Jiyuan Zhang

These lecture notes are designed to provide a brief introduction into the phenomenology of active matter and to present some of the analytical tools used to rationalize the emergent behavior of active systems. Such systems are made of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-02 Étienne Fodor , M. Cristina Marchetti

This paper deals with the modeling and mathematical analysis of vehicular traffic phenomena according to a kinetic theory approach, where the microscopic state of vehicles is described by: (i) position, (ii) velocity, as a continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-26 J. Calvo , J. Nieto , M. Zagour

Empirical evidence suggesting that living systems might operate in the vicinity of critical points, at the borderline between order and disorder, has proliferated in recent years, with examples ranging from spontaneous brain activity to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-25 Jorge Hidalgo , Jacopo Grilli , Samir Suweis , Miguel A. Munoz , Jayanth R. Banavar , Amos Maritan

Self-propelled particles with hydrodynamic interactions (microswimmers) have previously been shown to produce long-range ordering phenomena. Many theoretical explanations for these collective phenomena are connected to instabilities in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-03 Yuzhou Qian , Peter R. Kramer , Patrick T. Underhill

In this paper, we propose a novel approach that employs kinetic equations to describe the collective dynamics emerging from graph-mediated pairwise interactions in multi-agent systems. We formally show that for large graphs and specific…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-15 Marco Nurisso , Matteo Raviola , Andrea Tosin

Many complex systems can be modeled as multiagent systems in which the constituent entities (agents) interact with each other. The global dynamics of such a system is determined by the nature of the local interactions among the agents.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Reinhard Laubenbacher , Abdul S. Jarrah , Henning Mortveit , S. S. Ravi

Dynamics is central to living systems. In the last two decades, experiments have revealed that the dynamics in diverse biological systems - from intracellular cytoplasm to cellular and organismal aggregates - are remarkably similar to that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-12 Souvik Sadhukhan , Subhodeep Dey , Smarajit Karmakar , Saroj Kumar Nandi

Hydrodynamic theories effectively describe many-body systems out of equilibrium in terms of a few macroscopic parameters. However, such hydrodynamic parameters are difficult to derive from microscopics. Seldom is this challenge more…

Quantum physics is a linear theory, so it is somewhat puzzling that it can underlie very complex systems such as digital computers and life. This paper investigates how this is possible. Physically, such complex systems are necessarily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 George F R Ellis

Bridging the gap between individual agent behavior and macroscopic societal patterns is a central challenge in the social sciences. In this work, we propose a solution to this problem via a kinetic theory formulation. We demonstrate that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-13 Miguel A. Durán-Olivencia

In equilibrium, the collective behaviour of particles interacting via steep, short-ranged potentials is well captured by the virial expansion of the free energy at low density. Here, we extend this approach beyond equilibrium to the case of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-21 Yuting Irene Li , Rosalba Garcia-Millan , Michael E. Cates , Étienne Fodor

Unlike the classical kinetic theory of rarefied gases, where microscopic interactions among gas molecules are described as binary collisions, the modelling of socio-economic phenomena in a multi-agent system naturally requires to consider,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-15 Giuseppe Toscani , Andrea Tosin , Mattia Zanella

The dynamics of an infinite system of point particles in $\mathbb{R}^d$, which hop and interact with each other, is described at both micro- and mesoscopic levels. The states of the system are probability measures on the space of…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-21 Christoph Berns , Yuri kondratiev , Yuri Kozitsky , Oleksandr Kutoviy

Kinetic theory frameworks are widely used for modeling stochastic interacting systems, where the evolution primarily depends on binary interactions. Recently, in this framework the action of the external force field has been introduction in…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-30 Marco Menale , Carmelo Filippo Munafò , Francesco Oliveri

By combining methods of kinetic and density functional theory, we present a description of molecular fluids which accounts for their microscopic structure and thermodynamic properties as well as for the hydrodynamic behavior. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

The aim of this paper is to study the derivation of appropriate meso- and macroscopic models for interactions as appearing in social processes. There are two main characteristics the models take into account, namely a network structure of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Martin Burger

We develop a rigorous formalism for the description of the kinetic evolution of interacting entities modeling systems in mathematical biology within the framework of the evolution of marginal observables. For this purpose we construct the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Yu. Yu. Fedchun , V. I. Gerasimenko