Collective effects in traffic on bi-directional ant-trails
| dc.creator | John, Alexander | |
| dc.creator | Schadschneider, Andreas | |
| dc.creator | Chowdhury, Debashish | |
| dc.creator | Nishinari, Katsuhiro | |
| dc.date | 2004-09-17 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:00:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:00:52Z | |
| dc.description | Motivated by recent experimental work of Burd et al., we propose a model of bi-directional ant-traffic on pre-existing ant-trails. It captures in a simple way some of the generic collective features of movements of real ants on a trail. Analyzing this model, we demonstrate that there are crucial qualitative differences between vehicular- and ant-traffics. In particular, we predict some unusual features of the flow rate that can be tested experimentally. As in the uni-directional model a non-monotonic density-dependence of the average velocity can be observed in certain parameter regimes. As a consequence of the interaction between oppositely moving ants the flow rate can become approximately constant over some density interval. | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409458 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409458 | |
| dc.identifier | J. Theor. Biol. 231, 279 (2004) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/24889 | |
| dc.subject | Statistical Mechanics | |
| dc.title | Collective effects in traffic on bi-directional ant-trails | |
| dc.type | text |