Physics – Physics and Society
Scientific paper
2007-11-22
Physics
Physics and Society
11 pages, large figures, shortened version will be prepared for IJMPC
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0129183108012406
In this paper we study urban segregation of two different communities A and B, poor and rich, distributed randomly on finite samples, to check cheap and expensive residences. For this purpose we avoid the complications of the Schelling model which are not necessary and instead we use the Ising model on 500 x 500 square lattice, which give similar results, with random magnetic field at lower and higher temperatures (kT/J = 2.0, 99.0) in finite times equal to 40, 400, 4000 and 40,000. This random-field Ising magnet is a suitable model, where each site of the square lattice carries a magnetic field h which is randomly up (expensive) or down (cheap). The resulting addition to the energy prefers up spins on the expensive and down spins on the cheap sites. Our simulations were carried out using a 50-lines FORTRAN program. We present at a lower temperature (2.0) a time series of pictures, separating growing from non-growing domains. A small random field (h = +- 0.1) allows for large domains, while a large random field (h = +- 0.9) allows only small clusters. At higher temperature (99.0) we could not obtain growing domains.
El-Astal Ali H.
Radwan M. A.
Shabat M. M.
Sumour Muneer A.
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