Issue |
EPL
Volume 86, Number 4, May 2009
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Article Number | 48004 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/86/48004 | |
Published online | 03 June 2009 |
Self-organized pattern formation in a diverse attractive-repulsive swarm
National Institute of Physics University of the Philippines - Diliman, Quezon City 1101, Philippines
Corresponding author: djuanico@gmail.com
Received:
28
December
2008
Accepted:
30
April
2009
A diverse, asynchronous swarm consisting of N mobile, attractive-repulsive particles evolves inside a two-dimensional confinement. Each particle k is characterized by a preferred neighboring distance determined from a truncated normal distribution of mean
and standard deviation
, for
. Pairwise particle interaction is either attractive or repulsive depending on whether the distance between two particles is greater or less than
. The swarm forms self-organized metastable patterns as particles adjust their positions via random asynchronous evolution. An order parameter U is defined as a measure for pattern metastability, which is found to exhibit a first-order phase transition at
= 0.606. For
tetrapolar patterns are formed, whereas for
stellate patterns are formed. This work explores the role of diversity in self-organized pattern formation in an attractive-repulsive swarm system.
PACS: 87.23.Cc – Population dynamics and ecological pattern formation / 05.65.+b – Self-organized systems / 87.18.Hf – Spatiotemporal pattern formation in cellular populations
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