Complex network structure of flocks in the standard vicsek model

DOI10.1007/S10955-013-0827-4MaRDI QIDQ2016500zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gabriel Baglietto, E. V. Albano, Julián Candia

Publication date 20 June 2014

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.1778

zbMATH Keywords

collective motioncomplex networksself-propelled particle systemsvicsek model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Small world graphs, complex networks (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C82) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Developmental biology, pattern formation (92C15)

Abstract: In flocking models, the collective motion of self-driven individuals leads to the formation of complex spatiotemporal patterns. The Standard Vicsek Model (SVM) considers individuals that tend to adopt the direction of movement of their neighbors under the influence of noise. By performing an extensive complex network characterization of the structure of SVM flocks, we show that flocks are highly clustered, assortative, and non-hierarchical networks with short-tailed degree distributions. Moreover, we also find that the SVM dynamics leads to the formation of complex structures with an effective dimension higher than that of the space where the actual displacements take place. Furthermore, we show that these structures are capable of sustaining mean-field-like orientationally ordered states when the displacements are suppressed, thus suggesting a linkage between the onset of order and the enhanced dimensionality of SVM flocks.

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