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Active particles bound by information flows

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  • Utsab Khadka

    (Princeton University)

  • Viktor Holubec

    (Universität Leipzig
    Charles University)

  • Haw Yang

    (Princeton University)

  • Frank Cichos

    (Universität Leipzig)

Abstract

Self-organization is the generation of order out of local interactions. It is deeply connected to many fields of science from physics, chemistry to biology, all based on physical interactions. The emergence of collective animal behavior is the result of self-organization processes as well, though they involve abstract interactions arising from sensory inputs, information processing, storage, and feedback. Resulting collective behaviors are found, for example, in crowds of people, flocks of birds, and swarms of bacteria. Here we introduce interactions between active microparticles which are based on the information about other particle positions. A real-time feedback of multiple active particle positions is the information source for the propulsion direction of these particles. The emerging structures require continuous information flows. They reveal frustrated geometries due to confinement to two dimensions and internal dynamical degrees of freedom that are reminiscent of physically bound systems, though they exist only as nonequilibrium structures.

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  • Utsab Khadka & Viktor Holubec & Haw Yang & Frank Cichos, 2018. "Active particles bound by information flows," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 9(1), pages 1-9, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:9:y:2018:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-018-06445-1
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06445-1
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    1. Maxime Hubert & Stéphane Perrard & Nicolas Vandewalle & Matthieu Labousse, 2022. "Overload wave-memory induces amnesia of a self-propelled particle," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, December.
    2. Xiangzun Wang & Frank Cichos, 2024. "Harnessing synthetic active particles for physical reservoir computing," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-9, December.
    3. Cristóvão S. Dias & Manish Trivedi & Giovanni Volpe & Nuno A. M. Araújo & Giorgio Volpe, 2023. "Environmental memory boosts group formation of clueless individuals," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-11, December.
    4. Xiangzun Wang & Pin-Chuan Chen & Klaus Kroy & Viktor Holubec & Frank Cichos, 2023. "Spontaneous vortex formation by microswimmers with retarded attractions," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-9, December.

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