2007/07/11 by Luca Dall'Asta, Claudio Castellano, Matteo Marsili · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.soc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2008/07/l07002
4 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2007/07/11 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
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, nontrivial coarsening like in driven-particle systems and percolation-related phenomena.