collective behavior

American  

noun

Sociology.

1. the spontaneous, unstructured, and temporary behavior of a group of people in response to the same event, situation, etc.

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Example Sentences

"Soccer fandom provides a high-ecological-validity model of fanaticism with quantifiable life consequences for health and collective behavior," said lead author Francisco Zamorano, biologist, Ph.D. in medical sciences at Clínica Alemana de Santiago and associate professor at Facultad de Ciencias para el Cuidado de la Salud, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago, Chile.

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"What's new here is that, because Lillian was able to grow and engineer these very strongly interacting dense spin ensembles, we can actually leverage the collective behavior, which provides an extra quantum advantage, allowing us to use the phenomena of quantum entanglement to get improved signal-to-noise ratios, providing greater sensitivity and making a better measurement possible."

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This approach merges principles from statistical mechanics, which studies the collective behavior of many particles, with quantum physics and modern computational modeling.

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Thinking about the collective behavior of a whole system rather than individual particles is common in other areas of physics and even everyday life.

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"The framework for analyzing this collective behavior resides in the fundamental pheromone concentration gradient, then working from there," Karamched said.

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