MAJORITY-VOTE MODEL WITH HETEROGENEOUS AGENTS ON SQUARE LATTICE

Abstract

We study a nonequilibrium model with up-down symmetry and a noise parameter q known as majority-vote model (MVM) of [M. J. Oliveira, J. Stat. Phys.66, 273 (1992)] with heterogeneous agents on square lattice (SL). By Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and finite-size scaling relations, the critical exponents β∕ν, γ∕ν and 1∕ν and points qc and U* are obtained. After extensive simulations, we obtain β∕ν = 0.35(1), γ∕ν = 1.23(8) and 1∕ν = 1.05(5). The calculated values of the critical noise parameter and Binder cumulant are qc = 0.1589(4) and U* = 0.604(7). Within the error bars, the exponents obey the relation 2β∕ν + γ∕ν = 2 and the results presented here demonstrate that the MVM heterogeneous agents belongs to a different universality class than the nonequilibrium MVM with homogeneous agents on SL.