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Love might be a second-order phase transition

Statistical Mechanics 2022-06-20 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

The hypothesis of the human brain operation in vicinity of a critical point has been a matter of a hot debate in the recent years. The evidence for a possibility of a naturally occurring phase transition across this critical point was missing so far. Here we show that love might be an example of such second-order phase transition. This hypothesis allows to describe both love at first sight and love from liking or friendship.

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@article{arxiv.2203.13246,
  title  = {Love might be a second-order phase transition},
  author = {Dmitry Solnyshkov and Guillaume Malpuech},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.13246},
  year   = {2022}
}
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