Patchy landscapes promote stability of small groups
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| author | Jacucci, Gianni Breoni, Davide Heijnen, Sandrine Palomo, José Jones, Philip Löwen, Hartmut Volpe, Giorgio Gigan, Sylvain |
| author_facet | Jacucci, Gianni Breoni, Davide Heijnen, Sandrine Palomo, José Jones, Philip Löwen, Hartmut Volpe, Giorgio Gigan, Sylvain |
| contents | Group formation and coordination are fundamental characteristics of living systems, essential for performing tasks and ensuring survival. Interactions between individuals play a key role in group formation, and the impact of resource distributions is a vibrant area of research. Using active particles in a tuneable optical environment as a model system, we demonstrate that heterogeneous energy source distributions result in smaller, more stable groups with reduced individual exchange between clusters compared to homogeneous conditions. Reduced group sizes can be beneficial to optimise resources in heterogeneous environments and to control information flow within populations. Devoid of biological complications, our system provides insights into the importance of patchy landscapes in ecological dynamics and holds implications for refining swarm intelligence algorithms and enhancing crowd control techniques. |
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| publishDate | 2023 |
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| spellingShingle | Patchy landscapes promote stability of small groups Jacucci, Gianni Breoni, Davide Heijnen, Sandrine Palomo, José Jones, Philip Löwen, Hartmut Volpe, Giorgio Gigan, Sylvain Soft Condensed Matter Optics Group formation and coordination are fundamental characteristics of living systems, essential for performing tasks and ensuring survival. Interactions between individuals play a key role in group formation, and the impact of resource distributions is a vibrant area of research. Using active particles in a tuneable optical environment as a model system, we demonstrate that heterogeneous energy source distributions result in smaller, more stable groups with reduced individual exchange between clusters compared to homogeneous conditions. Reduced group sizes can be beneficial to optimise resources in heterogeneous environments and to control information flow within populations. Devoid of biological complications, our system provides insights into the importance of patchy landscapes in ecological dynamics and holds implications for refining swarm intelligence algorithms and enhancing crowd control techniques. |
| title | Patchy landscapes promote stability of small groups |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01620 |