Edmundo Alves Filho, F. Lima, T. Alves, G. Alves, J. A. Plascak
{"title":"Opinion Dynamics Systems via Biswas–Chatterjee–Sen Model on Solomon Networks","authors":"Edmundo Alves Filho, F. Lima, T. Alves, G. Alves, J. A. Plascak","doi":"10.3390/physics5030056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/physics5030056","url":null,"abstract":"The critical properties of a discrete version of opinion dynamics systems, based on the Biswas–Chatterjee–Sen model defined on Solomon networks with both nearest and random neighbors, are investigated through extensive computer simulations. By employing Monte Carlo algorithms on SNs of different sizes, the magnetic-like variables of the model are computed as a function of the noise parameter. Using the finite-size scaling hypothesis, it is observed that the model undergoes a second-order phase transition. The critical transition noise and the respective ratios of the usual critical exponents are computed in the limit of infinite-size networks. The results strongly indicate that the discrete Biswas–Chatterjee–Sen model is in a different universality class from the other lattices and networks, but in the same universality class as the Ising and majority-vote models on the same Solomon networks.","PeriodicalId":783,"journal":{"name":"Technical Physics","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85727135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sunjing Zheng, Nan Jiang, Xiaomeng Li, Mingzhong Xiao, Qinghua Chen
{"title":"Faculty Hiring Network Reveals Possible Decision-Making Mechanism","authors":"Sunjing Zheng, Nan Jiang, Xiaomeng Li, Mingzhong Xiao, Qinghua Chen","doi":"10.3390/physics5030054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/physics5030054","url":null,"abstract":"Social physics (or sociophysics) offers new research perspectives for addressing social issues in various domains. In this study, we explore the decision-making process of doctoral graduates during their transition from graduation to employment, drawing on the ideas of sociophysics. We divide the process into two decision steps and propose a generative model based on appropriate assumptions. This model effectively reproduces empirical data, allowing us to derive essential parameters that influence the decision-making process from empirical observations. Through a comparison of the best-fit parameters, we discover that doctoral graduates in business disciplines tend to exhibit more concentrated employment choices, while those in computer science and history disciplines demonstrate a greater diversity of options. Furthermore, we observe that universities consider factors beyond rankings when selecting doctoral graduates.","PeriodicalId":783,"journal":{"name":"Technical Physics","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73385055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electricity Generated from Coils and Globules","authors":"K. Wright","doi":"10.1103/physics.16.136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physics.16.136","url":null,"abstract":"A ir-conditioning units guzzle energy, such that—in the summer months—they come in first place for electricity use among household appliances. Now Teppei Yamada and his colleagues at the University of Tokyo have developed a material that could help reduce air-conditioning energy needs by turning waste heat from these systems into electricity [1]. The material could also be used in wearable devices that need to generate their own electricity. “Technologies that turn heat into electricity are in their beginning stages,” Yamada says. “Here for the first time, we do that using a [polymer] phase transition.”","PeriodicalId":783,"journal":{"name":"Technical Physics","volume":"98 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83822369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cost of Sending a Bit Across a Living Cell","authors":"Artemy Kolchinsky","doi":"10.1103/physics.16.133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physics.16.133","url":null,"abstract":"F or a cell to stay alive, its different parts must be able to exchange signals. Transmitting signals consumes energy, of which every cell has a limited supply. Now Samuel Bryant and Benjamin Machta, two physicists at Yale University, have derived the minimum energy that a cell needs to transmit an internal signal using electrical current, molecular diffusion, or sound waves [1]. Their calculations show that the most efficient signaling mechanism depends on several factors, including the distance that the signal needs to travel. This finding matches everyday human experiences of","PeriodicalId":783,"journal":{"name":"Technical Physics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90056049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knotted Networks Form Cellular Safety Nets","authors":"Marric Stephens","doi":"10.1103/physics.16.s113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physics.16.s113","url":null,"abstract":"T hin bags filled with water aren’t the obvious material for building robust, complex structures. But when it comes to constructing biological tissues, such bags—which biological cells essentially resemble—are what nature has to work with. To provide the necessary mechanical properties, cells’ interiors are reinforced with various biopolymer networks, with each network resisting strain in a different stress regime. NowMarco Pensalfini of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain, and his colleagues have investigated the dynamics of one of these networks—the so-called intermediate-filament (IF) network—which helps keep the cells in epithelial tissues intact under large deformations [1]. The researchers show that the role of this network as a cellular “safety net” depends on how the filaments tangle together.","PeriodicalId":783,"journal":{"name":"Technical Physics","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79417569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Magnetic Microdisks Don’t Always Reciprocate","authors":"D. Ehrenstein","doi":"10.1103/physics.16.135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physics.16.135","url":null,"abstract":"B ird flocks and fish schools are examples of the large-scale order that can result from individual interactions between pairs of entities that are part of a large group. To study the effects of these pairwise forces on the large-scale patterns, researchers have now demonstrated a model systemwhere the interactions can be switched between two types: either reciprocal—the force on A by B is equal and opposite to the force on B by A—or nonreciprocal [1]. This control over the interactions led to a variety of surprising effects that the researchers say may be useful for developing future microrobot swarms.","PeriodicalId":783,"journal":{"name":"Technical Physics","volume":"86 13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88165692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Record-Breaking Detection of Solar Photons","authors":"R. Wilkinson","doi":"10.1103/physics.16.s107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physics.16.s107","url":null,"abstract":"O bservations over the past decade or so have shown that the Sun emits manymore gamma rays at GeV energies than is expected frommodeling. Now a collaboration operating the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory in Mexico show that this gamma-ray excess extends up to TeV energies [1]. This finding has implications for our understanding of both stellar atmospheres and astroparticle physics.","PeriodicalId":783,"journal":{"name":"Technical Physics","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85502114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-Healing Metal Observed","authors":"A. Gasparini","doi":"10.1103/physics.16.134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physics.16.134","url":null,"abstract":"A sheet of metal that can weld its own cracks may sound like a concept from the pages of a science fiction novel. But that self-healing is exactly what Brad Boyce of Sandia National Laboratories in NewMexico and colleagues recently captured during experiments exploring the properties of damaged platinum films [1]. Their observations are a first for this behavior, which could have implications for the development of infrastructure that is resistant to mechanical fatigue.","PeriodicalId":783,"journal":{"name":"Technical Physics","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72941771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radar Resolution Gets a Boost","authors":"K. Wright","doi":"10.1103/physics.16.132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physics.16.132","url":null,"abstract":"T he radar devices used to spot landmines have trouble distinguishing features at the depths at which these objects are typically buried, which can lead to false positives and thus wasted time. Now researchers have demonstrated a proof of concept for a radar method that can resolve smaller objects at greater depths than was previously possible [1]. The researchers say that their technique could allow detection of landmines buried a fewmeters underground, far deeper than the few centimeters accessible with current technology. Archeologists could also use the newmethod to find buried artifacts.","PeriodicalId":783,"journal":{"name":"Technical Physics","volume":"137 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79901058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}