Selected Topics of Social Physics: Nonequilibrium Systems

TL;DR

This review explores nonequilibrium social physics systems, providing accessible tutorials and recent models that advance understanding of complex social dynamics beyond equilibrium states.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive overview of nonequilibrium social physics models, combining educational content with recent original research insights.

Findings

Introduction of new models for nonequilibrium social systems

Bridging theory and practical applications in social physics

Enhanced understanding of dynamic social phenomena

Abstract

This review article is the second part of the project ``Selected Topics of Social Physics". The first part has been devoted to equilibrium systems. The present part considers nonequilibrium systems. The style of the paper combines the features of a tutorial and a review, which, from one side, makes it easy to read for nonspecialists aiming at grasping the basics of social physics, and from the other side, describes several rather recent original models containing new ideas that could be of interest to experienced researchers in the field. The present material is based on the lectures that the author had been giving during several years at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich).