Publication Date:
2008
abstract:
We investigate the static and dynamic properties of a celebrated model of social segregation, providing a complete explanation of the mechanisms leading to segregation both in one- and two-dimensional systems. Standard statistical physics methods shed light on the rich phenomenology of this simple model, exhibiting static phase transitions typical of kinetic constrained models, non-trivial coarsening like in driven-particle systems and percolation-related phenomena.
Iris type:
01.01 Articolo in rivista
Keywords:
stochastic processes; coarsening processes (theory); critical phenomena of socio-economic systems
List of contributors:
Castellano, Claudio
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