Anderson C, Fernandez-Nieves A
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
ICREA-Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, 08010 Barcelona, Spain.
Rep Prog Phys. 2024 May 28;87(6). doi: 10.1088/1361-6633/ad49b4.
This article discusses recent work with fire ants,, to illustrate the use of the framework of active matter as a base to rationalize their complex collective behavior. We review much of the work that physicists have done on the group dynamics of these ants, and compare their behavior to two minimal models of active matter, and to the behavior of the synthetic systems that have served to test and drive these models.
本文讨论了近期关于火蚁的研究工作，以说明如何运用活性物质框架来合理解释它们复杂的群体行为。我们回顾了物理学家在这些蚂蚁群体动力学方面所做的大量工作，并将它们的行为与活性物质的两个极简模型以及用于测试和推动这些模型的合成系统的行为进行比较。
