28 June 2026 to 4 July 2026
NCSR "Demokritos"
Europe/Athens timezone

When Group Size Matters: Collective Ordering and Criticality Beyond Pairwise Interactions

29 Jun 2026, 15:50
30m
Seminar Room "Themis Paradellis" (NCSR "Demokritos")

Seminar Room "Themis Paradellis"

NCSR "Demokritos"

Speaker

Roni Muslim (Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics)

Description

We study noisy majority-rule dynamics on annealed hypergraphs with random group sizes. Using mean-field theory and Monte Carlo simulations, we show that group-size heterogeneity strongly influences collective ordering, the ordering threshold, and consensus times. Broad and heavy-tailed distributions enhance the effect of rare large-group interactions, making ordered states more robust against noise and potentially accelerating consensus formation. Our results highlight that the full distribution of interaction sizes, rather than only the mean group size, is a key factor in higher-order collective dynamics.

Author

Roni Muslim (Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics)

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