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In this work, we study a nonlocal opinion dynamics in a ring of agents with circular opinion in the presence of both attractive and repulsive mechanisms. We identify three types of consensus in this model, including global consensus, local consensus and chimera consensus. In global consensus, both local agreement among adjacent agents and global agreement among all agents are achieved. In local consensus, local agreement is satisfied but global agreement fails. There are two domains in chimera consensus, one preserves local agreement and the other breaks the local agreement. The relation between the opinion difference between adjacent agents and the interaction radius is investigated and a scaling law is found. The transitions between local consensus and chimera consensus are exemplified.

Does massless (λΦ⁴)₄ theory exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB)? The raw one-loop result implies that it does, but the "RG-improved" result implies the opposite. We argue that the appropriate "low-energy effective theory" is a nonlocal field theory involving an attractive, long-range interaction Φ²(x)Φ²(y)/|x-y|⁴. RG improvement then requires running couplings for both this interaction and the original pointlike interaction. A crude calculation in this framework yields SSB even after "RG improvement" and closely agrees with the raw one-loop result.

Nonlinear Schrödinger equations and corresponding quantum hydrodynamic (QHD) equations are widely used in studying of ultracold boson–fermion mixtures and superconductors. In this article, we show that more exact account of interaction in Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC), in comparison with the Gross–Pitaevskii (GP) approximation, leads to the existence of a new type of solitons. We use a set of QHD equations in the third order by the interaction radius (TOIR), which corresponds to the GP equation in the first order by the interaction radius. We analytically obtain a soliton solution which is an area of increased atom concentration. The conditions for existence of the soliton are studied. It is shown what solution exists if the interaction between the particles is repulsive. Particle concentration has been achieved experimentally for the BEC is of order of 10¹²–10¹⁴ cm^-3. In this case the solution exists if the scattering length is of the order of 1 μm, which can be reached using the Feshbach resonance. It is one of the limit case of existence of the solution. The corresponding scattering length decrease with the increasing of concentration of particles. We have shown that account of interaction up to TOIR approximation leads to new effects. The investigation of effects in the TOIR approximation gives a more detail information on interaction potentials between the atoms and can be used for a more detail investigation of the interatomic potential structure.

This paper deals with the qualitative analysis of a class of bilinear systems of equations describing the dynamics of individuals undergoing kinetic (stochastic) interactions. A corresponding evolution problem is formulated in terms of integro-differential (nonlocal) system of equations. A general existence theory is provided. Under the assumption of periodic boundary conditions and the interaction rates expressed in terms of convolution operators two classes of equilibrium solutions are distinguished. The first class contains only constant functions and the second one contains some nonconstant functions. In the scalar case (one equation) under suitable scaling, related to the shrinking of interaction range of each individual, the limit to the corresponding "macroscopic" equation is studied. The limiting equation turns out to be the (nonlinear) porous medium equation.