3 papers
cond-mat.soft2024
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-mech2024
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…
cond-mat.stat-mech2023
Non-Markovian and Collective Search Strategies
Hugues Meyer, Heiko Rieger
Agents searching for a target can improve their efficiency by memorizing where they have already been searching or by cooperating with other searchers and using strategies that ben…