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The random field Ising model driven by a slowly varying uniform external field at zero temperature provides a caricature of several threshold activated systems. In this model, the non-equilibrium response of the system can be obtained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Prabodh Shukla

We address the issue of the reducibility of the dynamics on a multilayer network to an equivalent process on an aggregated single-layer network. As a typical example of models for opinion formation in social networks, we implement the voter…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-08 Marina Diakonova , Vincenzo Nicosia , Vito Latora , Maxi San Miguel

We consider the behavior of an Ising ferromagnet obeying the Glauber dynamics under the influence of a fast switching, random external field. Analytic results for the stationary state are presented in mean-field approximation, exhibiting a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Hausmann , P. Rujan

We study the large-population limit of interacting particle systems evolving on adaptive dynamical networks, motivated in particular by models of opinion dynamics. In such systems, agents interact through weighted graphs whose structure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Nathalie Ayi

Empirically derived continuum models of collective behavior among large populations of dynamic agents are a subject of intense study in several fields, including biology, engineering and finance. We formulate and study a mean-field game…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-06-22 Piyush Grover , Kaivalya Bakshi , Evangelos A. Theodorou

The voter model has been studied extensively as a paradigmatic opinion dynamics' model. However, its ability for modeling real opinion dynamics has not been addressed. We introduce a noisy voter model (accounting for social influence) with…

The dynamical responses of Ising metamagnet (layered antiferromagnet) in the presence of a sinusoidally oscillating magnetic field are studied by Monte Carlo simulation. The time average staggered magnetisation plays the role of dynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-21 Muktish Acharyya

We present a theoretical study aimed to elucidate the origin of the inverse symmetry breaking transition observed in ultrathin magnetic films with perpendicular anisotropy. We study the behavior of the dipolar frustrated Ising model in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-20 Luciana Araújo Velasque , Daniel A. Stariolo , Orlando V. Billoni

A phase transition indicates a sudden change in the properties of a large system. For temperature-driven phase transitions this is related to non-analytic behavior of the free energy density at the critical temperature: The knowledge of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-20 Markus Heyl , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Stefan Kehrein

We consider the behavior of an Ising ferromagnet obeying the Glauber dynamics under the influence of a fast switching, random external field. After introducing a general formalism for describing such systems, we consider here the mean-field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Hausmann , P. Rujan

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

Using two models of opinion dynamics, the $q$-voter model with independence and the $q$-voter model with anticonformity, we discuss how the change of disorder from annealed to quenched affects phase transitions on networks. To derive phase…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-07-21 Arkadiusz Jędrzejewski , Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron

This paper investigates the use of transformers to approximate the mean-field dynamics of interacting particle systems exhibiting collective behavior. Such systems are fundamental in modeling phenomena across physics, biology, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Shiba Biswal , Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Rishi Sonthalia

We propose a generalized framework for the study of voter models in complex networks at the the heterogeneous mean-field (HMF) level that (i) yields a unified picture for existing copy/invasion processes and (ii) allows for the introduction…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-20 Paolo Moretti , Suyu Liu , Andrea Baronchelli , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

The Bose-Hubbard model effectively describes bosons on a lattice with on-site interactions and nearest-neighbour hopping, serving as a foundational framework for understanding strong particle interactions and the superfluid to Mott…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Shahnaz Farhat , Denis Périce , Sören Petrat

We study a two-sublattice Ising metamagnet with nearest and next-nearest-neighbor interactions, in both uniform and random fields. Using a mean-field approximation, we show that the qualitative features of the phase diagrams are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Serge Galam , Carlos S. O. Yokoi , Silvio R. Salinas

The theory of phase transitions is based on the consideration of "idealized" models, such as the Ising model: a system of magnetic moments living on a cubic lattice and having only two accessible states. For simplicity the interaction is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-22 H Chamati , S Romano

Attractors of dynamical systems may be networks in phase space that can be heteroclinic (where there are dynamical connections between simple invariant sets) or excitable (where a perturbation threshold needs to be crossed to a dynamical…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-04-24 Peter Ashwin , Claire Postlethwaite

Non-dyadic higher-order interactions affect collective behavior in various networked dynamical systems. Here we discuss the properties of a novel Ising model with higher-order interactions and characterize its phase transitions between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-02 Thomas Robiglio , Leonardo Di Gaetano , Ada Altieri , Giovanni Petri , Federico Battiston

Most of the conventional models for opinion dynamics mainly account for a fully local influence, where myopic agents decide their actions after they interact with other agents that are adjacent to them. For example, in the case of social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-10 Babak Fotouhi , Michael G. Rabbat