The role of structures in collective processes

Balbás Gambra, Marta (2010): The role of structures in collective processes: social dynamics and molecular self-assembly. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik

Abstract

In this thesis we study the dynamics of social systems and molecular monolayers employing tools of statistical physics. In both cases the topological structure underlying the interactions turns out to be the key element in the emergence of collective macroscopic phenomena from the synergy of the individual interactions.

• Dokumententyp: Dissertationen (Dissertation, LMU München)
• Keywords: evolutionary dynamics, non-lineal dynamics, phase transition, agent-based model, molecular self-assembly, order transitions
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik ; 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik
• Fakultäten: Fakultät für Physik
• Sprache der Hochschulschrift: Englisch
• Datum der mündlichen Prüfung: 29. Januar 2010
• 1. Bericht­erstatter:in: Frey, Erwin