Franco Bagnoli — Università di Firenze #
Phase transitions in the parallel Ising model #
We present simulations about the parallel version of the Ising model, focussing on phase transitions. We 
show the effect of "diluting" the parallel update, thus exploring the transition between the parallel and 
the usual sequential version of the model, and the effects of a nonlinear Hamiltonian. In this case the 
mean-field approximation is a chaotic map, a behaviour that can be recovered also in microscopic 
simulations by changing the topology of the network, i.e., exploiting the small-world effect.
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In collaboration with R. Rechtman and T. Matteuzzi