Phase transition in the majority rule model with the nonconformist agents

Roni Muslim, Sasfan A. Wella and Ahmad R.T. Nugraha

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2022, vol. 608, issue P2

Abstract: Independence and anticonformity are two types of social behaviors known in social psychology literature and the most studied parameters in the opinion dynamics model. These parameters are responsible for continuous (second-order) and discontinuous (first-order) phase transition phenomena. Here, we investigate the majority rule model in which the agents adopt independence and anticonformity behaviors. We define the model on several types of graphs: complete graph, two-dimensional (2D) square lattice, and one-dimensional (1D) chain. By defining p as a probability of independence (or anticonformity), we observe the model on the complete graph undergoes a continuous phase transition where the critical points are pc≈0.334 (pc≈0.667) for the model with independent (anticonformist) agents. On the 2D square lattice, the model also undergoes a continuous phase transition with critical points at pc≈0.0608 (pc≈0.4035) for the model with independent (anticonformist) agents. On the 1D chain, there is no phase transition either with independence or anticonformity. Furthermore, with the aid of finite-size scaling analysis, we obtain the same sets of critical exponents for both models involving independent and anticonformist agents on the complete graph. Therefore they are identical to the mean-field Ising model. However, in the case of the 2D square lattice, the models with independent and anticonformist agents have different sets of critical exponents and are not identical to the 2D Ising model. Our work implies that the existence of independence behavior in a society makes it more challenging to achieve consensus compared to the same society with anticonformists.

Keywords: Monte Carlo simulation; Network graph; Opinion dynamics; Phase transition; Universality class (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2022.128307

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