Fig. 1: Self-organized resetting as a mechanism for constraining fluctuations.

a Schematic illustrating different mechanisms that constrain the accumulation of noise. In the scheme, particles are depicted as filled circles, and external forces on the particles and interactions between the particles are depicted as arrows. The mechanism of self-organized resetting is emphasized by color-coding in blue and green. b Illustration of self-organized resetting: Exemplary trajectories obtained from agent-based simulations for cooperative resetting, where stochastic particles are randomly reset to their respective average. Each line represents the stochastic trajectory of a particle. Exemplary trajectories are highlighted by bold lines; resetting points are marked by circles. Random pair-wise resetting occurs with a rate of interaction μ which depends on the distance δ between pairs of particles.