Does Quantum Interference exist in Twitter?
Social and Information Networks
2011-07-05 v1 Information Theory
math.IT
Physics and Society
Abstract
It becomes more difficult to explain the social information transfer phenomena using the classic models based merely on Shannon Information Theory (SIT) and Classic Probability Theory (CPT), because the transfer process in the social world is rich of semantic and highly contextualized. This paper aims to use twitter data to explore whether the traditional models can interpret information transfer in social networks, and whether quantum-like phenomena can be spotted in social networks. Our main contributions are: (1) SIT and CPT fail to interpret the information transfer occurring in Twitter; and (2) Quantum interference exists in Twitter, and (3) a mathematical model is proposed to elucidate the spotted quantum phenomena.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1107.0681,
title = {Does Quantum Interference exist in Twitter?},
author = {Xin Shuai and Ying Ding and Jerome Busemeyer and Yuyin Sun and Shanshan Chen and Jie Tang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.0681},
year = {2011}
}