Statistical physics of the Schelling model of segregation
Physics and Society
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
We investigate the static and dynamic properties of a celebrated model of social segregation, providing a complete explanation of the mechanisms leading to segregation both in one- and two-dimensional systems. Standard statistical physics methods shed light on the rich phenomenology of this simple model, exhibiting static phase transitions typical of kinetic constrained models, nontrivial coarsening like in driven-particle systems and percolation-related phenomena.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0707.1681,
title = {Statistical physics of the Schelling model of segregation},
author = {Luca Dall'Asta and Claudio Castellano and Matteo Marsili},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.1681},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures