Disorder-mediated crowd control in an active matter system.
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SUBMITTER: Pince E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4786875 | biostudies-other | 2016
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Disorder-mediated crowd control in an active matter system.
Pinçe Erçağ E Velu Sabareesh K P SK Callegari Agnese A Elahi Parviz P Gigan Sylvain S Volpe Giovanni G Volpe Giorgio G
Nature communications 20160309
Living active matter systems such as bacterial colonies, schools of fish and human crowds, display a wealth of emerging collective and dynamic behaviours as a result of far-from-equilibrium interactions. The dynamics of these systems are better understood and controlled considering their interaction with the environment, which for realistic systems is often highly heterogeneous and disordered. Here, we demonstrate that the presence of spatial disorder can alter the long-term dynamics in a colloi ...[more]
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