Self-organizing social hierarchy and villages in a challenging society

We show by Monte Calro (MC) simulation that the hierarchy and villages emerge simultaneously in a challenging society when the population density exceeds a critical value. Our results indicate that among controlling processes of diffusion and fighting of individuals and relaxation of wealth, the trend of individuals challeninging to stronger neighbors plays the pivotal role in the self-organization of the hierarchy and villages

Nonlinear Energy Response of Glass Forming Materials

A theory for the nonlinear energy response of a system subjected to a heat bath is developed when the temperature of the heat bath is modulated sinusoidally. The theory is applied to a model glass forming system, where the landscape is assumed to have 20 basins and transition rates between basins obey a power law distribution. It is shown that the statistics of eigenvalues of the transition rate matrix, the glass transition temperature $T_g$, the Vogel-Fulcher temperature $T_0$ and the crossover temperature $T_x$ can be determined from the 1st- and 2nd-order ac specific heats, which are defined as coefficients of the 1st- and 2nd-order energy responses. The imaginary part of the 1st-order ac specific heat has a broad peak corresponding to the distribution of the eigenvalues. When the temperature is decreased below $T_g$, the frequency of the peak decreases and the width increases. Furthermore, the statistics of eigenvalues can be obtained from the frequency dependence of the 1st-order ac specific heat. The 2nd-order ac specific heat shows extrema as a function of the frequency. The extrema diverge at the Vogel-Fulcher temperature $T_0$. The temperature dependence of the extrema changes significantly near $T_g$ and some extrema vanish near $T_x$.Comment: 20 pages, 10 figure

Self-organizing social hierarchies in a timid society

Emergence of hierarchies is investigated by Monte Carlo simulation in a timid society where all individuals are pacifist. The self-organiztion of hierarchies is shown to occur in two steps as the population is increased, i.e. there are three states, one egalitarian and two hierarchical states;the transition from the egalitarian to the first hierarchical state is continuous and the transition from the first hierachical state to the second one is discontinuous. In the first hierarchical society, all individuals belong to either middle class or losers and no winners appear. In the second hierarchical society, many winners emerge and the population of the middle class is reduced. The hierarchy in the second hierarchical society is stronger than the hierachy in a no-preference society studied by Bonabeau et al [ Physica A{\bf 217}, 373 (1995)]Comment: 8pages with 6figure

Diffusion on diffusing particles

We investigate random walk of a particle constrained on cells, where cells behave as a lattice gas on a two dimensional square lattice. By Monte Carlo simulation, we obtain the mean first passage time of the particle as a function of the density and temperature of the lattice gas. We find that the transportation of the particle becomes anomalously slow in a certain range of parameters because of the cross over in dynamics between the low and high density regimes; for low densities the dynamics of cells plays the essential role, and for high densities, the dynamics of the particle plays the dominant role