Contrarian Voter Model under the influence of an Oscillating Propaganda: Consensus, Bimodal behavior and Stochastic Resonance

Abstract

We study the contrarian voter model for opinion formation in a society under the influence of an external oscillating propaganda and stochastic noise. Each agent of the population can hold one of two possible opinions on a given issue --against or in favor, and interacts with its neighbors following either an imitation dynamics (voter behavior) or an anti-alignment dynamics (contrarian behavior): each agent adopts the opinion of a random neighbor with a time-dependent probability $p(t)$, or takes the opposite opinion with probability $1-p(t)$. The imitation probability $p(t)$ is controlled by the social temperature $T$, and varies in time according to a periodic field that mimics the influence of an external propaganda, so that a voter is more prone to adopt an opinion aligned with the field. We simulate the model in complete graph and in lattices, and find that the system exhibits a rich variety of behaviors as $T$ is varied: opinion consensus for $T=0$, a bimodal behavior for $T<T_c$, an oscillatory behavior where the mean opinion oscillates in time with the field for $T>T_c$, and full disorder for $T\gg 1$. The transition temperature $T_c$ vanishes with the population size $N$ as $T_c\simeq 2/\ln N$ in complete graph. Besides, the distribution of residence times $t_r$ in the bimodal phase decays approximately as $t_r^{-3/2}$. Within the oscillatory regime, we find a stochastic resonance-like phenomenon at a given temperature $T^{\ast }$. Also, mean-field analytical results show that the opinion oscillations reach a maximum amplitude at an intermediate temperature, and that exhibit a lag respect to the field that decreases with $T$.

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