This article discusses recent work with fire ants, Solenopisis invicta, 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.

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活跃的多粒子系统和密集蚂蚁群体的涌现行为


本文讨论了最近对火蚁的研究，红火蚁，说明如何使用活跃物质的框架作为基础来合理化其复杂的集体行为。我们回顾了物理学家在这些蚂蚁的群体动力学方面所做的大部分工作，并将它们的行为与活性物质的两个最小模型以及用于测试和驱动这些模型的合成系统的行为进行了比较。