Schrödinger’s ants: a continuous description of Kirman’s recruitment model

We show how the approach to equilibrium in Kirman's ants model can be fully characterized in terms of the spectrum of a Schrödinger equation with a Pöschl–Teller (tan2) potential. Among other interesting properties, we have found that in the bimodal phase where ants visit mostly one food site a...

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Main Authors: Moran, J, Fosset, A, Benzaquen, M, Bouchaud, J-P
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2020