Density-functional fluctuation theory of crowds

Tools from statistical physics can be used to investigate a large variety of fields ranging from economics to biology. Here the authors first adapt density-functional theory to predict the distributions of crowds in new environments and then validate their approach using groups of fruit flies.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: J. Felipe Méndez-Valderrama, Yunus A. Kinkhabwala, Jeffrey Silver, Itai Cohen, T. A. Arias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-018-05750-z