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Dynamics of Majority Rule in Two-State Interacting Spin Systems

, and . Physical Review Letters, 90 (23): 238701+ (Jun 13, 2003)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.90.238701

Abstract

We introduce a two-state opinion dynamics model where agents evolve by majority rule. In each update, a group of agents is specified whose members then all adopt the local majority state. In the mean-field limit, where a group consists of randomly selected agents, consensus is reached in a time that scales ln⁡N, where N is the number of agents. On finite-dimensional lattices, where a group is a contiguous cluster, the consensus time fluctuates strongly between realizations and grows as a dimension-dependent power of N. The upper critical dimension appears to be larger than 4. The final opinion always equals that of the initial majority except in one dimension.

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