Ordering dynamics with two non-excluding options: bilingualism in language competition

By X. Castelló, V'ictor M. Egu'iluz, M. S. Miguel. 2006

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We consider an extension of the voter model in which a set of interacting elements (agents) can be in either of two equivalent states (A or B) or in a third additional mixed (AB) state. The model is motivated by studies of language competition dynamics, where the AB state is associated with bilingualism. We study the ordering process and associated interface and coarsening dynamics in regular lattices and small world networks. Agents in the AB state define the interfaces, changing the interfacial noise driven coarsening of the voter model to curvature driven coarsening. This change in the coarsening mechanism is also shown to originate for a class of perturbations of the voter model dynamics. When interaction is through a small world network the AB agents restore coarsening, eliminating the metastable states of the voter model. The characteristic time to reach the absorbing state scales with system size as τ ∼ lnN to be compared with the result τ ∼ N for the voter model in a small world network.

Subfields: Cultural Studies, Molecular Biology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Statistical physics of social dynamics (2007, methodology): “A comparison between the behavior of the voter dynamics and the AB-model on modular networks is in (Castelló et al., 2007).”