Random Lasers as Social Processes Simulators

Entropy (Basel). 2023 Nov 29;25(12):1601. doi: 10.3390/e25121601.

Abstract

In this work, we suggest a quantum-like simulator concept to study social processes related to the solution of NP-hard problems. The simulator is based on the solaser model recently proposed by us in the framework of information cascade growth and echo chamber formation in social network communities. The simulator is connected with the random laser approach that we examine in the A and D-class (superradiant) laser limits. Novel network-enforced cooperativity parameters of decision-making agents, which may be measured as a result of the solaser simulation, are introduced and justified for social systems. The innovation diffusion in complex networks is discussed as one of the possible impacts of our proposal.

Keywords: complex networks; decision-making agents; innovation diffusion; quantum-like simulators; random lasers; superradiance.

Grants and funding

Section 2 and Section 4 were funded by the Goszadanie No. 2019-1339 project of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russian Federation. Section 3 was funded by the Russian Science Foundation, project number 23-22-00058.