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physics.soc-ph2026
Social Physics: A manifesto
János Kertész, Marc Barthelemny, Marc Barthelemy +21
Social Physics seeks quantitative, empirically testable explanations of collective human behavior. Its name has a long and contested history, but its contemporary program is neithe…
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
Contrarian Majority Dynamics: Violation of Detailed Balance and Nonequilibrium Steady States
Serge Galam
I revisit the Galam Majority Model (GMM) with contrarian agents from a statistical-mechanics perspective, revealing three fundamental features. First, in addition to the GMM simult…
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
Two stroke Pumping Technique for Many-Body Systems
Serge Galam
I introduce a new analytical framework for estimating critical temperatures in interacting many-body systems, focusing on the Ising model. Combining the Bethe cluster setting, the…