Social nucleation: Group formation as a phase transition
The spontaneous formation and subsequent growth, dissolution, merger, and competition of social groups bears similarities to physical phase transitions in metastable finite systems. We examine three different scenarios, percolation, spinodal decomposition, and nucleation, to describe the formation o...
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| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2022
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