3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Collective chemotactic search
Adam Wysocki, Hugues Meyer, Heiko Rieger
We investigate collective search by self-propelled agents that are repelled by their own chemically produced trails, a minimal mechanism that simultaneously generates indirect inte…
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
Weak-Memory Dynamics in Discrete Time
Hugues Meyer, Kay Brandner
Discrete dynamics arise naturally in systems with broken temporal translation symmetry and are typically described by first-order recurrence relations representing classical or qua…
cond-mat.stat-mech2025
Optimal number of agents in a collective search, and when to launch them
Hugues Meyer, Heiko Rieger
Search processes often involve multiple agents that collectively search a randomly located target. While increasing the number of agents usually decreases the time at which the fir…