A nonequilibrium statistical field theory of swarms and other spatially extended complex systems

Conference · Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993

OSTI ID:10167192

Millonas, M M ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)

A class of models with applications to swarm behavior as well as many other types of spatially extended complex biological and physical systems is studied. Internal fluctuations can play an active role in the organization of the phase structure of such systems. Consequently, it is not possible to fully understand the behavior of these systems without explicitly incorporating the fluctuations. In particular, for the class of models studied here the effect of internal fluctuations due to finite size is a renormalized decrease in the temperature near the point of spontaneous symmetry breaking. We briefly outline how these models can be applied to the behavior of an ant swarm.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 10167192
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-93-2134; CONF-9304168-1; ON: DE93016618
• Resource Relation: Conference: NATO advanced research workshop on spatio-temporal patterns in nonequilibrium complex systems,Santa Fe, NM (United States),13-17 Apr 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1993]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
NONLINEAR PROBLEMS
STATISTICAL MODELS
ANTS
BEHAVIOR
DYNAMICS
STATISTICS
MOTION
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MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS