Renormalization group approach to the collective behaviour of strongly correlated biological systems

Project Information

RG.BIO

Grant agreement ID: 785932

DOI

10.3030/785932

Project closed

EC signature date 27 June 2018

Start date 1 October 2018

End date 31 March 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 301 250,00

EU contribution

€ 2 301 250,00

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CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
Italy

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (35)

Signatures of irreversibility in microscopic models of flocking

Author(s): Federica Ferretti; Simon Grosse-Holz; Caroline Holmes; Jordan L. Shivers; Irene Giardina; Thierry Mora; Aleksandra M. Walczak
Published in: Physical Review E, 2022, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.034608

Equilibrium to off-equilibrium crossover in homogeneous active matter

Author(s): Andrea Cavagna, Luca Di Carlo, Irene Giardina, Tomás S. Grigera, Giulia Pisegna
Published in: Physical Review Research, 2021, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.3.013210

Natural swarms in 3.99 dimensions

Author(s): Cavagna, Andrea; Di Carlo, Luca; Giardina, Irene; Grigera, Tomás S.; Melillo, Stefania; Parisi, Leonardo; Pisegna, Giulia; Scandolo, Mattia
Published in: Nature Physics, 2023, ISSN 1745-2473
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-023-02028-0

From noise on the sites to noise on the links: Discretizing the conserved Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation in real space

Author(s): Andrea Cavagna, Javier Cristín, Irene Giardina, Mario Veca
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 109, 2024, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.109.064136

Active Ising Models of flocking: a field-theoretic approach

Author(s): Mattia Scandolo, Johannes Pausch, Michael E. Cates
Published in: The European Physical Journal E, Issue 46, 2023, ISSN 1292-8941
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00364-w

Marginal speed confinement resolves the conflict between correlation and control in natural flocks of birds

Author(s): Cavagna, Andrea; Culla, Antonio; Feng, Xiao; Giardina, Irene; Grigera, Tomás S.; Kion-Crosby, Willow; Melillo, Stefania; Pisegna, Giulia; Postiglione, Lorena; Villegas, Pablo
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 2315, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2101.09748

Renormalization group study of marginal ferromagnetism

Author(s): Cavagna, Andrea; Culla, Antonio, Grigera, Tomas S.
Published in: Physical Review E, 2022, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.054136

CoMo: A Novel Comoving 3D Camera System

Author(s): Andrea Cavagna, Xiao Feng, Stefania Melillo, Leonardo Parisi, Lorena Postiglione, Pablo Villegas
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Issue 70, 2021, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 0018-9456
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tim.2021.3074388

Informational Entropy Threshold as a Physical Mechanism for Explaining Tree-Like Decision Making in Humans

Author(s): J. Cristín, V. Méndez, D. Campos
Published in: Entropy, 2022, ISSN 1099-4300
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/e24121819

Conceptual and practical approaches for investigating irreversible processes

Author(s): Dario Lucente, Marco Baldovin, Fabio Cecconi, Massimo Cencini, Niccolò Cocciaglia, Andrea Puglisi, Massimiliano Viale, Angelo Vulpiani
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 27, 2025, Page(s) 041201, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/adc6ab

Evidence of fluctuation-induced first-order phase transition in active matter

Author(s): Luca Di Carlo; Mattia Scandolo
Published in: New Journal of Physcis, 2022, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aca9ed

Inertial spin model of flocking with position-dependent forces

Author(s): Sebastián Carruitero, Alejo Costa Duran, Giulia Pisegna, Mauricio B. Sturla, Tomás S. Grigera
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 110, 2024, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.110.014408

Characterization of lab-based swarms of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes using 3D-video tracking

Author(s): A. Cavagna, I. Giardina, M.A. Gucciardino, G. Iacomelli, M. Lombardi, S. Melillo, G. Monacchia, L. Parisi, M. J. Peirce, R Spaccapelo
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-34842-0

Optimal Control of an Electromechanical Energy Harvester

Author(s): Dario Lucente, Alessandro Manacorda, Andrea Plati, Alessandro Sarracino, Marco Baldovin
Published in: Entropy, Issue 27, 2025, Page(s) 268, ISSN 1099-4300
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/e27030268

Revealing the Nonequilibrium Nature of a Granular Intruder: The Crucial Role of Non-Gaussian Behavior

Author(s): D. Lucente, M. Viale, A. Gnoli, A. Puglisi, A. Vulpiani
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 131, 2025, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.078201

H-theorem at negative temperature: the random exchange model with bounds

Author(s): Dario Lucente, Marco Baldovin, Andrea Puglisi, Angelo Vulpiani
Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, Issue 2025, 2025, Page(s) 013210, ISSN 1742-5468
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/ada49b

Inference of time irreversibility from incomplete information: Linear systems and its pitfalls

Author(s): D. Lucente; A. Baldassarri; A. Puglisi; A. Vulpiani; M. Viale
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 4, 2022, Page(s) 043103, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.4.043103

Building General Langevin Models from Discrete Datasets

Author(s): Federica Ferretti, Victor Chardès, Thierry Mora, Aleksandra M. Walczak, Irene Giardina
Published in: Physical Review X, Issue 10/3, 2020, ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.10.031018

Control of friction: Shortcuts and optimization for the rate- and state-variable equation

Author(s): Andrea Plati, Alberto Petri, Marco Baldovin
Published in: European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids, Issue 111, 2025, Page(s) 105550, ISSN 0997-7538
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.euromechsol.2024.105550

Renormalization group crossover in the critical dynamics of field theories with mode coupling terms

Author(s): Andrea Cavagna, Luca Di Carlo, Irene Giardina, Luca Grandinetti, Tomas S. Grigera, Giulia Pisegna
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 100/6, 2019, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.100.062130

Low-temperature marginal ferromagnetism explains anomalous scale-free correlations in natural flocks

Author(s): Andrea Cavagna, Antonio Culla, Luca Di Carlo, Irene Giardina, Tomas S. Grigera
Published in: Comptes Rendus Physique, Issue 20/4, 2019, Page(s) 319-328, ISSN 1631-0705
Publisher: Elsevier Masson
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2019.05.008

Dynamical Renormalization Group Approach to the Collective Behavior of Swarms

Author(s): Andrea Cavagna, Luca Di Carlo, Irene Giardina, Luca Grandinetti, Tomas S. Grigera, Giulia Pisegna
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 123/26, 2019, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.268001

Statistical features of systems driven by non-Gaussian processes: theory & practice

Author(s): Dario Lucente, Andrea Puglisi, Massimiliano Viale, Angelo Vulpiani
Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, Issue 2023, 2023, Page(s) 113202, ISSN 1742-5468
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/ad063b

Joint assessment of density correlations and fluctuations for analysing spatial tree patterns

Author(s): P. Villegas, A. Cavagna, M. Cencini, H. Fort, T.S. Grigera
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, 2021, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: Royal Society Publishing
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.202200

The 2025 motile active matter roadmap

Author(s): Gerhard Gompper, Howard A Stone, Christina Kurzthaler, David Saintillan, Fernado Peruani, Dmitry A Fedosov, Thorsten Auth, Cecile Cottin-Bizonne, Christophe Ybert, Eric Clément, Thierry Darnige, Anke Lindner, Raymond E Goldstein, Benno Liebchen, Jack Binysh, Anton Souslov, Lucio Isa, Roberto di Leonardo, Giacomo Frangipane, Hongri Gu, Bradley J Nelson, Fridtjof Brauns, M Cristina Marchetti, Frank
Published in: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Issue 37, 2025, Page(s) 143501, ISSN 0953-8984
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/adac98

Discrete Laplacian thermostat for flocks and swarms: the fully conserved Inertial Spin Model

Author(s): Andrea Cavagna, Javier Cristín, Irene Giardina, Tomás S Grigera, Mario Veca
Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Issue 57, 2024, Page(s) 415002, ISSN 1751-8113
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/ad7ca0

Vicsek model by time-interlaced compression: A dynamical computable information density

Author(s): A. Cavagna, P. M. Chaikin, D. Levine, S. Martiniani, A. Puglisi, M. Viale
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 103/6, 2021, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.062141

Testing for stationary dynamics in the Barro Colorado Island forest

Author(s): Andrea, Cavagna; Hugo, Fort; Tomas S., Grigera
Published in: Ecological Indicators, 2023, ISSN 1470-160X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.109880

Optimal Control of Underdamped Systems: An Analytic Approach

Author(s): Julia Sanders, Marco Baldovin, Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi
Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics, Issue 191, 2024, ISSN 1572-9613
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-024-03320-w

Self-diffusion in a strongly coupled non-neutral plasma

Author(s): Marco Baldovin, Grégoire Vallet, Gaëtan Hagel, Emmanuel Trizac, Caroline Champenois
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 109, 2024, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.109.043116

Discrete Laplacian thermostat for spin systems with conserved dynamics

Author(s): Andrea Cavagna, Javier Cristín, Irene Giardina, Mario Veca
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 107, 2023, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.107.224302

Minimal work protocols for inertial particles in nonharmonic traps

Author(s): Julia Sanders, Marco Baldovin, Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 111, 2025, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.111.034127

Dynamical Renormalization Group for Mode-Coupling Field Theories with Solenoidal Constraint

Author(s): Andrea Cavagna, Luca Di Carlo, Irene Giardina, Tomas Grigera, Giulia Pisegna, Mattia Scandolo
Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics, Issue 184/3, 2021, ISSN 0022-4715
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-021-02800-7

Kardar–Parisi–Zhang universality in a one-dimensional polariton condensate

Author(s): Q. Fontaine, D. Squizzato, F. Baboux, I. Amelio, A. Lemaître, M. Morassi, I. Sagnes, L. Le Gratiet, A. Harouri, M. Wouters, I. Carusotto, A. Amo, M. Richard, A. Minguzzi, L. Canet, S. Ravets, J. Bloch
Published in: Nature, 2022, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05001-8

Renormalization group approach to connect discrete- and continuous-time descriptions of Gaussian processes

Author(s): Federica Ferretti; Victor Chardès; Thierry Mora; Aleksandra M. Walczak; Irene Giardina
Published in: Physical Review E, 2022, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.105.044133