Irreversible opinion spreading on scale-free networks

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作者
Candia, Julian [1 ]
Candia, Julian [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ New Mexico, Consortium Amer Interdisciplinary Sci, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[2] Univ New Mexico, Dept Phys & Astron, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[3] Univ Notre Dame, Ctr Complex Network Res, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
[4] Univ Notre Dame, Dept Phys, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevE.75.026110
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
We study the dynamical and critical behavior of a model for irreversible opinion spreading on Barabasi-Albert (BA) scale-free networks by performing extensive Monte Carlo simulations. The opinion spreading within an inhomogeneous society is investigated by means of the magnetic Eden model, a nonequilibrium kinetic model for the growth of binary mixtures in contact with a thermal bath. The deposition dynamics, which is studied as a function of the degree of the occupied sites, shows evidence for the leading role played by hubs in the growth process. Systems of finite size grow either ordered or disordered, depending on the temperature. By means of standard finite-size scaling procedures, the effective order-disorder phase transitions are found to persist in the thermodynamic limit. This critical behavior, however, is absent in related equilibrium spin systems such as the Ising model on BA scale-free networks, which in the thermodynamic limit only displays a ferromagnetic phase. The dependence of these results on the degree exponent is also discussed for the case of uncorrelated scale-free networks.
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