Topological phase transition in coupled rock-paper-scissor cycles
Statistical Mechanics
2021-01-04 v1 Populations and Evolution
Abstract
A hallmark of topological phases is the occurrence of topologically protected modes at the system`s boundary. Here we find topological phases in the antisymmetric Lotka-Volterra equation (ALVE). The ALVE is a nonlinear dynamical system and describes, e.g., the evolutionary dynamics of a rock-paper-scissors cycle. On a one-dimensional chain of rock-paper-scissor cycles, topological phases become manifest as robust polarization states. At the transition point between left and right polarization, solitonic waves are observed. This topological phase transition lies in symmetry class within the "ten-fold way" classification as also realized by 1D topological superconductors.
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@article{arxiv.2009.01780,
title = {Topological phase transition in coupled rock-paper-scissor cycles},
author = {Johannes Knebel and Philipp M. Geiger and Erwin Frey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.01780},
year = {2021}
}