Marginally Stable Swarms Are Flexible and Efficient
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A simple model of cooperative food retrieval in ants is introduced to illustrate how a many-body biological system such as a swarm can exhibit an efficient and flexible behavior if it is close to an instability, but in a region where structured patterns of activity can grow and be maintained.
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