Symmetry Breaking in Escaping Ants
@article{Altshuler2005SymmetryBI, title={Symmetry Breaking in Escaping Ants}, author={E. Altshuler and O. Ramos and Y. N{\'u}{\~n}ez and J. Fern{\'a}ndez and A. J. Batista-Leyva and C. Noda}, journal={The American Naturalist}, year={2005}, volume={166}, pages={643 - 649} }
The phenomenon of herding is a very general feature of the collective behavior of many species in panic conditions, including humans. It has been predicted theoretically that panic‐induced herding in individuals confined to a room can produce a nonsymmetrical use of two identical exit doors. Here we demonstrate the existence of that phenomenon in experiments, using ants as a model of pedestrians. We show that ants confined to a cell with two symmetrically located exits use both exits in… CONTINUE READING
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