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Despite the diversity of materials designated as active matter, virtually all active systems undergo a form of dynamic arrest when crowding and activity compete, reminiscent of the dynamic arrest observed in colloidal and molecular fluids…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-28 Ludovic Berthier , Elijah Flenner , Grzegorz Szamel

Understanding how microscopic motility shapes emergent collective behaviors is a challenging task in active matter, especially when self-propulsion is regulated by external cues or via quorum-sensing interactions. To address this problem,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-13 Alberto Dinelli , Pietro Luigi Muzzeddu

This paper proposes a systems approach to social sciences based on mathematical framework derived from a generalization of the mathematical kinetic theory and on theoretical tools of game theory. Social systems are modeled as a living…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-14 Giulia Ajmone Marsan , Nicola Bellomo , Livio Gibelli

A celebrated and controversial hypothesis conjectures that some biological systems --parts, aspects, or groups of them-- may extract important functional benefits from operating at the edge of instability, halfway between order and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 Miguel A. Munoz

A new kinetic theory Boltzmann-like collision term including correlations is proposed. In equilibrium it yields the one-particle distribution function in the form of a generalised-Lorentzian resembling but not being identical with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. A. Treumann

With the birth of quantum information science, many tools have been developed to deal with many-body quantum systems. Although a complete description of such systems is desirable, it will not always be possible to achieve this goal, as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Cristhiano Duarte , Barbara Amaral , Marcelo Terra Cunha , Matthew Leifer

Nowadays, multiscale modelling is recognized as the most suitable way to study biological processes. Indeed, almost every phenomenon in nature exhibits a multiscale behaviour, i.e., it is the outcome of interactions that occur at different…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-18 Federico Buti , Massimo Callisto De Donato , Flavio Corradini , Emanuela Merelli , Luca Tesei

In this paper, we mathematically formulate the interaction and dynamics of a hierarchical complex social system where each agent is seen as an array of many variables. The formation of identities and modifications can be studied by using…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-12-23 Fariel Shafee

Consciousness spans macroscopic experience and microscopic neuronal activity, yet linking these scales remains challenging. Prevailing theories, such as Integrated Information Theory, focus on a single scale, overlooking how causal power…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-16 Zhipeng Wang , Yingqi Rong , Kaiwei Liu , Mingzhe Yang , Jiang Zhang , Jing He

Fluid-structure interactions between active and passive components are important for many biological systems to function. A particular example is chromatin in the cell nucleus, where ATP-powered processes drive coherent motions of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-15 Scott Weady , David B. Stein , Alexandra Zidovska , Michael J. Shelley

Multi-agent systems often operate under feedback, adaptation, and non-stationarity, yet many simulation studies retain static decision rules and fixed control parameters. This paper introduces a general adaptive multi-agent learning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Roberto Garrone

A hallmark of living systems is the ability to employ a common set of versatile building blocks that can self-organize into a multitude of different structures, in a way that can be controlled with minimal cost. This capability can only be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-26 Saeed Osat , Ramin Golestanian

The accumulation of self-propelled particles on repulsive barriers is a widely observed feature in active matter. Despite being implicated in a broad range of biological processes, from biofilm formation to cytoskeletal movement, wetting of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-12 Noah Grodzinski , Michael E. Cates , Robert L. Jack

We employ Statistical Field Theory techniques for coarse-graining the steady-state properties of Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles. The computation is carried on in the framework of the Unified Colored Noise approximation that allows an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-27 Matteo Paoluzzi , Claudio Maggi , Andrea Crisanti

Starting from the concept of binary interactions between pairs of particles, a kinetic framework for the description of the action potential dynamics on a neural network is proposed. It consists of two coupled levels: the description of a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Martina Conte , Maria Groppi , Andrea Tosin

The current social reality is characterized by all-encompassing change, which disrupts existing social structures at all levels. Yet the prevailing view of society is based on the ontological primacy of stable hierarchical structures, which…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Viktoras Veitas , David Weinbaum

This paper is devoted to the description of the evolution of states of quantum many-particle systems within the framework of a one-particle density operator, which enables to construct the kinetic equations in scaling limits in the presence…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-07 V. I. Gerasimenko , Zh. A. Tsvir

We describe an efficient and parsimonious matrix-based theory for studying the ensemble behavior of self-propellers and active swimmers, such as nanomotors or motile bacteria, that are typically studied by differential-equation-based…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-11 Amir Nourhani , Paul E. Lammert , Ali Borhan , Vincent H. Crespi

We complete the existing literature on the kinetic theory of systems with long-range interactions. Starting from the BBGKY hierarchy, or using projection operator technics or a quasilinear theory, a general kinetic equation can be derived…

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