10 papers
Mid-circuit ground-state cooling and ancilla readout in the architecture
Sean Brudney, Connor Burns, Gabriel J. Gregory +4
The trapped-ion optical-metastable-ground () architecture for quantum processors promises the full functionality of two-species experiments, including sympathetic coo…
Corruption as a self-sustained collective state in political systems
Nuno Crokidakis, Jaime L. C. da C. Filho
Political corruption is often interpreted as the result of individual misconduct or isolated institutional failures. However, persistent corruption patterns observed in real-world…
The propensity for disobedience: Rule-breaking, compliance and social phase transitions
Nuno Crokidakis
We develop a mathematical model to describe the persistence of rule-breaking behaviors in societies, such as traffic violations, disregard for legal restrictions and other forms of…
When cardinals strategize: An agent-based model of influence and ideology for the papal conclave
Nuno Crokidakis
We propose and analyze two agent-based models to investigate the dynamics of papal conclaves, focusing on how social influence, strategic voting, and ideological alignment affect t…
Collective attention under digital exposure: A dynamical systems approach
Nuno Crokidakis
The widespread use of digital devices has raised growing concerns about its impact on sustained attention at the population level. In this work, we propose a minimal dynamical fram…
Opinion dynamics under electoral shocks in competitive campaigns
Jaime L. C. da C. Filho, Nuno Crokidakis
We propose a computational framework for modeling opinion dynamics in electoral competitions that combines two realistic features: voter memory and exogenous shocks. The population…