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Learning shared structure across environments facilitates rapid learning and adaptive behavior in neural systems. This has been widely demonstrated and applied in machine learning to train models that are capable of generalizing to novel…

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Life mechanics, an emerging field, focuses on the self-organizing forces and motions within living systems. This study introduces the novel concept of active force, generated by mind-body interactions, as an essential element in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-09-21 Rong Li , Weicheng Cui

Dynamics in correlated quantum matter is a hard problem, as its exact solution generally involves a computational effort that grows exponentially with the number of constituents. While a remarkable progress has been witnessed in recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-28 Roberto Verdel , Markus Schmitt , Yi-Ping Huang , Petr Karpov , Markus Heyl

Living systems are open nonequilibrium systems that continuously exchange energy, matter, and information with their environments, leading to stochastic dynamics with memory and active fluctuations. In this study, we develop a non-Markovian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-20 Feiyi Liu , Min Guo , Hongwei Tan , Yang Wang

We offer our opinion on the benefits of integration of insights from active matter physics with principles of regulatory interactions and control to develop a field we term ``smart matter". This field can provide insight into important…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-02 Herbert Levine , Daniel I. Goldman

Simple nonlinear dynamical systems with multiple stable stationary states are often taken as models for switchlike biological systems. This paper considers the interaction of multiple such simple multistable systems when they are embedded…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2008-04-10 Dennis Cates Wylie

In many complex molecular systems, the macroscopic ensemble's properties are controlled by microscopic dynamic events (or fluctuations) that are often difficult to detect via pattern-recognition approaches. Discovering the relationships…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Martina Crippa , Annalisa Cardellini , Matteo Cioni , Gábor Csányi , Giovanni M. Pavan

A general framework to describe a vast majority of biology-inspired systems is to model them as stochastic processes in which multiple couplings are in play at the same time. Molecular motors, chemical reaction networks, catalytic enzymes,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-25 Daniel M. Busiello , Deepak Gupta , Amos Maritan

Living systems continuously transform matter and energy through the chemical processes that constitute their metabolism. The overall metabolic rate of an organism correlates positively with its body mass, however both the exact scaling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Efe Ilker , Michael Hinczewski , Xingbo Yang , Frank Jülicher

This article reports about a novel extension of dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) that allows the study of the collective dynamics of complex chemical and structural systems in a spatially resolved manner with a combinatorially complex…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2011-12-07 Rudolf M. Fuechslin , Thomas Maeke , John S. McCaskill

Lattice models allow for a computationally efficient investigation of motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) compared to off-lattice systems. Simulations are less demanding and thus bigger systems can be accessed with higher accuracy and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-26 Florian Dittrich , Thomas Speck , Peter Virnau

While the properties of materials at microscopic scales are well described by fundamental quantum mechanical equations and electronic structure theories, the emergent behavior of mesoscopic or macroscopic composites is no longer governed…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Lifeng Hao , Fan Li , Yongqi Li , Siyong Wang , Xiaodong He

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) with Large Language Model (LLM)-powered agents are gaining attention, yet fewer studies explore their team dynamics. Inspired by human team science, we propose a multi-agent framework to examine core aspects of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Rasika Muralidharan , Haewoon Kwak , Jisun An

In this paper, we review multi-agent collective behavior algorithms in the literature and classify them according to their underlying mathematical structure. For each mathematical technique, we identify the multi-agent coordination tasks it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Federico Rossi , Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay , Michael Wolf , Marco Pavone

Particles that are catalytically-active and chemotactic can interact through the concentration fields upon which they act, which in turn may lead to wide-scale spatial self-organization. When these active particles interact through several…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-12 Vincent Ouazan-Reboul , Ramin Golestanian , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo

We revisit the behavioral approach to systems theory and make explicit the abstract pattern that governs it. Our end goal is to use that pattern to understand interaction-related phenomena that emerge when systems interact. Rather than…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-26 Elie M. Adam , Munther A. Dahleh

In the present contribution, we derive from kinetic theory a unified fluid model for multicomponent plasmas by accounting for the electromagnetic field influence. We deal with a possible thermal nonequilibrium of the translational energy of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-07 Benjamin Graille , Thierry E. Magin , Marc Massot

From critical infrastructure, to physiology and the human brain, complex systems rarely occur in isolation. Instead, the functioning of nodes in one system often promotes or suppresses the functioning of nodes in another. Despite advances…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-20 Michael M. Danziger , Ivan Bonamassa , Stefano Boccaletti , Shlomo Havlin

Flocks of birds, schools of fish, mixtures of motors and cytoskeletal filaments, swimming bacteria and driven granular media are systems of interacting motile units that exhibit collective behaviour. These can all be described as active…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-08 P. Varuni , Shakti N. Menon , Gautam I. Menon

The general theory of a complex system of nonlinear chemical reactions is a primary language of chemistry that includes chemical engineering and cellular biochemistry. Its significance as an analytical framework, however, has not been fully…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Liu Hong , Hong Qian