Physics of Complex Systems: The Axelrod Model

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Sociophysics! It's time someone talked about it, right? Here, we analyze a typical model used to understand consensus formation: The Axelrod Model. This model is very similar to the Voter Model, and exhibits very interesting phenomena, such as emergence of consensus or phase transitions. We explain how the model works using the formalism of statistical physics, then simulate a bit and then talk about the results. There are some special guests in this video: Boltzmann, Landau, Onsager and... of course, Cronenberg Batman. Moreover, the state of the art brand new technology of the DREAAMS machine is implemented in this video. We hope you enjoy it! The main references used were:

[1] "Binary and multivariate Stochastic Models of Consensus Formation", witten by Maxi San Miguel, Victor M. Eguiluz, R.Toral and K. Klemm, published in Computing in Science and Engineering 7(6): 67-73 (2005).

[2] "The dissemination of culture: a model with local convergence and global polarization", by Robert Axelrod, published in The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol.41 No.2 (Apr. 1997) pp. 203-226.

[3] "Statistical physics of social dynamics", by Claudio Castellano, Santo Fortunato and Vittorio Loreto (Dipartimento di Fisica, “Sapienza” Universita di Roma and SMC), published in Reviews of Modern Physics 81, 591-646 (2009).

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