Diverse behaviors in non-uniform chiral and non-chiral swarmalators.

ABSTRACT: We study the emergent behaviors of a population of swarming coupled oscillators, dubbed swarmalators. Previous work considered the simplest, idealized case: identical swarmalators with global coupling. Here we expand this work by adding more realistic features: local coupling, non-identical natural frequencies, and chirality. This more realistic model generates a variety of new behaviors including lattices of vortices, beating clusters, and interacting phase waves. Similar behaviors are found across natural and artificial micro-scale collective systems, including social slime mold, spermatozoa vortex arrays, and Quincke rollers. Our results indicate a wide range of future use cases, both to aid characterization and understanding of natural swarms, and to design complex interactions in coll

SUBMITTER: Ceron S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9941214 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature