The dynamic patterns and coordinated motion displayed by groups of social animals are a
beautiful example of self-organization in natural far-from-equilibrium systems. Recent …

Collective behaviour can be difficult to discern because it is not limited to animal
aggregations such as flocks of birds and schools of fish wherein individuals spontaneously …

We study the swarming behavior of hydrodynamic alignment. Alignment reflects steering
toward a weighted average heading. We consider the class of so-called $ p $-alignment …

Modelling biological or engineering swarms is challenging due to the inherently high
dimension of the system, despite the often low-dimensional emergent dynamics. Most …

Abstract Sinhuber et al.(Sci Rep 11: 3773, 2021) formulated an equation of state for
laboratory swarms of the non-biting midge Chironomus riparius that holds true when the …

In contrast with flocks of birds, schools of fish and herds of animals, swarms of the non-biting
midge Chironomus riparius do not possess global order and under quiescent conditions …

Active particle systems, such as human crowds, are out of equilibrium posing a significant
challenge in identifying a suitable equation of state. However, several previous observations …

Modelling animal behavior using active-particle models is a major current challenge. The
unique properties of animals mean that such models require the use of new types of …

Mating swarms of flying male insects are a form of collective behaviour, albeit one different
from flocks and schools as they do not display ordered collective movements. In recent …

Inferring the size of a collective from the motion of a few accessible units is a fundamental
problem in network science and interdisciplinary physics. Here, we recognize stochasticity …