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We study the opinion dynamics in a population by considering a variant of Kuramoto model where the phase of an oscillator represents the opinion of an individual on a single topic. Two extreme phases separated by $\pi$ represent opposing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-04 Sidharth Pradhan , Sangeeta Rani Ujjwal

Three dimensional anisotropic XY ferromagnet driven by elliptically polarized propagating magnetic field wave has been extensively investigated by Monte Carlo simulation with Metropolis single spin flip algorithm. Both the effects of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-20 Olivia Mallick , Muktish Acharyya

Understanding neural dynamics is a central topic in machine learning, non-linear physics and neuroscience. However, the dynamics is non-linear, stochastic and particularly non-gradient, i.e., the driving force can not be written as gradient…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-05 Junbin Qiu , Haiping Huang

Understanding how opinions spread through a community or how consensus emerges in noisy environments can have a significant impact on our comprehension of social relations among individuals. In this work a model for the dynamics of opinion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Schwammle , M. C. Gonzalez , A. A. Moreira , J. S. Jr. Andrade , H. J. Herrmann

We study the orientational ordering in systems of self-propelled particles with selective interactions. To introduce the selectivity we augment the standard Vicsek model with a bounded-confidence collision rule: a given particle only aligns…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-01 Maksym Romenskyy , Vladimir Lobaskin , Thomas Ihle

Opinion dynamics models how the publicly expressed opinions of users in a social network coevolve according to their neighbors as well as their own intrinsic opinion. Motivated by the real-world manipulation of social networks during the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Akhil Jalan , Marios Papachristou

Ehrenfest urns with interaction that are connected in a ring is considered as a paradigm model for non-equilibrium thermodynamics and is shown to exhibit two distinct non-equilibrium steady states (NESS) of uniform and non-uniform particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-03 Chi-Ho Cheng , Pik-Yin Lai

In this work we study a model of opinion dynamics considering activation/deactivation of agents. In other words, individuals are not static and can become inactive and drop out from the discussion. A probability $w$ governs the deactivation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-14 Marcelo A. Pires , Nuno Crokidakis

In this work we study the opinion formation in a voter-like model defined on a square lattice of linear size $L$. The agents may be in three different states, representing any public debate with three choices (yes, no, undecided). We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-07-18 Nuno Crokidakis

The stochastic dynamics of the multi-state voter model is investigated on a class of complex networks made of non-overlapping cliques, each hosting a political candidate and interacting with the others via Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi links. Numerical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-06-10 Filippo Palombi , Simona Toti

The dynamic phase transition has been studied in the two dimensional kinetic Ising model in presence of a time varying (sinusoidal) magnetic field by Monte Carlo simulation. The nature (continuous or discontinuous) of the transition is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Muktish Acharyya

We analyze the non-equilibrium order-disorder transition of Axelrod's model of social interaction in several complex networks. In a small world network, we find a transition between an ordered homogeneous state and a disordered state. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Konstantin Klemm , Victor M. Eguiluz , Raul Toral , Maxi San Miguel

In this paper, we propose a Boltzmann-type kinetic description of opinion formation on social networks, which takes into account a general connectivity distribution of the individuals. We consider opinion exchange processes inspired by the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-12 Nadia Loy , Matteo Raviola , Andrea Tosin

The adaptive voter model is widely used to model opinion dynamics in social complex networks. However, existing adaptive voter models are limited to only pairwise interactions and fail to capture the intricate social dynamics that arises in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-04 Anastasia Golovin , Jan Mölter , Christian Kuehn

This paper is concerned with the dynamics evolution of opinions in the presence of both cooperations and antagonisms. The class of Laplacian flows is addressed through signed digraphs subject to switching topologies. Further, a state…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Deyuan Meng , Ziyang Meng , Yiguang Hong

In this paper, we study the phase transition behavior emerging from the interactions among multiple agents in the presence of noise. We propose a simple discrete-time model in which a group of non-mobile agents form either a fixed connected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-10-21 Jialing Liu , Vikas Yadav , Hullas Sehgal , Joshua M. Olson , Haifeng Liu , Nicola Elia

We consider the plurality consensus problem among $n$ agents. Initially, each agent has one of $k$ different opinions. Agents choose random interaction partners and revise their state according to a fixed transition function, depending on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Gregor Bankhamer , Petra Berenbrink , Felix Biermeier , Robert Elsässer , Hamed Hosseinpour , Dominik Kaaser , Peter Kling

We study the dynamical and critical behavior of a model for irreversible opinion spreading on Barab\'asi-Albert (BA) scale-free networks by performing extensive Monte Carlo simulations. The opinion spreading within an inhomogeneous society…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 Julián Candia

We present numerical simulations of a model of social influence, where the opinion of each agent is represented by a binary vector. Agents adjust their opinions as a result of random encounters, whenever the difference between opinions is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. F. Laguna , Guillermo Abramson , Damian H. Zanette

According to mass media theory, the dissemination of messages and the evolution of opinions in social networks follow a two-step process. First, opinion leaders receive the message from the message sources, and then they transmit their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Huisheng Wang , Yuejiang Li , Yiqing Lin , H. Vicky Zhao