Non-equilibrium opinion spreading on 2D small-world networks

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2007/09/P09001MaRDI QIDQ5239403zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Julián Candia

Publication date 22 October 2019

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1490

zbMATH Keywords

networksrandom graphsclassical Monte Carlo simulationskinetic growth processes (theory)critical phenomena of socio-economic systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C80) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Monte Carlo methods applied to problems in statistical mechanics (82M31)

Abstract: Irreversible opinion spreading phenomena are studied on small-world networks generated from 2D regular lattices by means of the magnetic Eden model, a nonequilibrium kinetic model for the growth of binary mixtures in contact with a thermal bath. In this model, the opinion or decision of an individual is affected by those of their acquaintances, but opinion changes (analogous to spin flips in an Ising-like model) are not allowed. Particularly, we focus on aspects inherent to the underlying 2D nature of the substrate, such as domain growth and cluster size distributions. Larger shortcut fractions are observed to favor long-range ordering connections between distant clusters across the network, while the temperature is shown to drive the system across an order-disorder transition, in agreement with previous investigations on related equilibrium spin systems. Furthermore, the extrapolated phase diagram, as well as the correlation length critical exponent, are determined by means of standard finite-size scaling procedures.

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