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Urban and Scientific Segregation: The Schelling-Ising Model

Physics and Society 2007-10-30 v1

Abstract

Urban segregation of different communities, like blacks and whites in the USA, has been simulated by Ising-like models since Schelling 1971. This research was accompanied by a scientific segregation, with sociologists and physicists ignoring each other until 2000. We review recent progress and also present some new two-temperature multi-cultural simulations.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0710.5237,
  title  = {Urban and Scientific Segregation: The Schelling-Ising Model},
  author = {Dietrich Stauffer and Christian Schulze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.5237},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

19 page review including all figures

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