Phase transitions in crowd dynamics of resource allocation

Details Phase transitions in crowd dynamics of resource allocation Phase transitions in crowd dynamics of resource allocation

2011-09-12

arxiv.org/abs/1109.2541v2

Phys. Rev. E 85 (2012) 021116

Physics

Physics and Society

7 pages, 7 figs

Scientific paper

We define and study a class of resources allocation processes where $gN$ agents, by repeatedly visiting $N$ resources, try to converge to optimal configuration where each resource is occupied by at most one agent. The process exhibits a phase transition, as the density $g$ of agents grows, from an absorbing to an active phase. In the latter, even if the number of resources is in principle enough for all agents ($g<1$), the system never settles to a frozen configuration. We recast these processes in terms of zero-range interacting particles, studying analytically the mean field dynamics and investigating numerically the phase transition in finite dimensions. We find a good agreement with the critical exponents of the stochastic fixed-energy sandpile. The lack of coordination in the active phase also leads to a non-trivial faster-is-slower effect.

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