Abstract
We examine an opinion formation model, which is a mixture of Voter and Ising agents. Numerical simulations show that even a very small fraction () of the Ising agents drastically changes the behavior of the Voter model. The Voter agents act as a medium, which correlates sparsely dispersed Ising agents, and the resulting ferromagnetic ordering persists up to a certain temperature. Upon addition of the Ising agents, a logarithmically slow coarsening of the Voter model (), or its active steady state (), change into an Ising-type power-law coarsening.
- Received 12 June 2017
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.96.032145
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