This paper aims to present the basic assumptions for creation of social Fröhlich condensate and attract attention of other researchers (both from physics and socio-political science) to the problem of modelling of stability and order preservation in highly energetic society coupled with social energy bath of high temperature. The model of social Fröhlich condensation and its analysis are based on the mathematical formalism of quantum thermodynamics and field theory (applied outside of physics). The presented quantum-like model provides the consistent operational model of such complex socio-political phenomenon as Fröhlich condensation. The model of social Fröhlich condensation is heavily based on theory of open quantum systems. Its consistent elaboration needs additional efforts. Evidence of such phenomenon as social Fröhlich condensation is demonstrated by stability of modern informationally open societies Approaching the state of Fröhlich condensation is the powerful source of social stability. Understanding its informational structure and origin may help to stabilize the modern society. Application of the quantum-like model of Frhlich condensation in social and political sciences is really the novel and original approach to mathematical modeling of social stability in society exposed to powerful information radiation from mass-media and internet based sources.
This paper aims to present the basic assumptions for creation of social Fröhlich condensate and attract attention of other researchers (both from physics and socio-political science) to the problem of modelling of stability and order preservation in highly energetic society coupled with social energy bath of high temperature. The model of social Fröhlich condensation and its analysis are based on the mathematical formalism of quantum thermodynamics and field theory (applied outside of physics). The presented quantum-like model provides the consistent operational model of such complex socio-political phenomenon as Fröhlich condensation. The model of social Fröhlich condensation is heavily based on theory of open quantum systems. Its consistent elaboration needs additional efforts. Evidence of such phenomenon as social Fröhlich condensation is demonstrated by stability of modern informationally open societies Approaching the state of Fröhlich condensation is the powerful source of social stability. Understanding its informational structure and origin may help to stabilize the modern society. Application of the quantum-like model of Frhlich condensation in social and political sciences is really the novel and original approach to mathematical modeling of social stability in society exposed to powerful information radiation from mass-media and internet based sources.
Recently, the dominant philosophical paradigm in Western social and political sciences has been criticized by a number of researchers and the necessity of transition to a new – quantum – transdisciplinary paradigm using ideas, concepts and formalism of quantum mechanics has been justified. The author argues that the need for such a transition is due to the fact that the dominant paradigm is based on outdated assumptions and premises of Modern philosophy, which really should be abandoned. It is quantum mechanics that contains the potential for a new philosophy. Classical mechanics had a significant impact on the development of philosophy, particularly on Kant’s critical philosophy, for which it served as the ideal of scientific knowledge. Today, a similar influence is exerted by quantum mechanics. Quantum ideas have also begun to be applied in the field of socio-political thought, particularly in the study of international relations, global politics, and global security. At the same time, the author argues that what many researchers take to be the “quantum paradigm” in the social and political sciences is in fact in many ways not so much an overcoming of the Modern paradigm as a postmodernist radicalization of it. In other words, the alternative they propose turns out to be a pseudo-quantum alternative. It is proposed the conceptual scheme of a contextual quantum realism as a genuine quantum alternative.
The recent years were characterized by increasing interest to applications of the quantum formalism outside physics, e.g., in psychology, decision-making, socio-political studies. To distinguish such approach from quantum physics, it is called quantum-like. It is applied to modeling socio-political processes on the basis of the social laser model describing stimulated amplification of social actions. The main aim of this paper is establishing the socio-psychological interpretations of the quantum notions playing the basic role in lasing modeling. By using the Copenhagen interpretation and the operational approach to the quantum formalism, we analyze the notion of the social energy. Quantum formalizations of such notions as a social atom, s-atom, and an information field are presented. The operational approach based on the creation and annihilation operators is used. We also introduce the notion of the social color of information excitations representing characteristics linked to lasing coherence of the type of collimation. The Bose–Einstein statistics of excitations is coupled with the bandwagon effect, one of the basic effects of social psychology. By using the operational interpretation of the social energy, we present the thermodynamical derivation of this quantum statistics. The crucial role of information overload generated by the modern mass-media is emphasized. In physics laser’s resonator, the optical cavity, plays the crucial role in amplification. We model the functioning of social laser’s resonator by “distilling” the physical scheme from connection with optics. As the mathematical basis, we use the master equation for the density operator for the quantum information field.
During recent years our society has often been exposed to coherent information waves of high amplitudes. These are waves of huge social energy. Often they are of destructive character, a kind of information tsunami. However, they can also carry positive improvements in human society, as waves of decision-making matching rational recommendations of societal institutes. The main distinguishing features of these waves are their high amplitude, coherence (homogeneous character of social actions generated by them), and short time needed for their generation and relaxation. Such waves can be treated as large-scale exhibitions of the bandwagon effect. We show that this socio-psychic phenomenon can be modeled based on the recently developed social laser theory. This theory can be used to model stimulated amplification of coherent social actions. "Actions" are treated very generally, from mass protests to votes and other collective decisions, such as, e.g., acceptance (often unconscious) of some societal recommendations. In this paper, we concentrate on the theory of laser resonators, physical vs. social. For the latter, we analyze in detail the functioning of Internet-based echo chambers. Their main purpose is increasing of the power of the quantum information field as well as its coherence. Of course, the bandwagon effect is well known and well studied in social psychology. However, social laser theory gives the possibility to model it by using general formalism of quantum field theory. The paper contains the minimum of mathematics and it can be read by researchers working in psychological, cognitive, social, and political sciences; it might also be interesting for experts in information theory and artificial intelligence.
The measurement problem in quantum mechanics has, since its inception, given rise to enduring debates concerning the role of the observer and the nature of physical reality. Although the von Neumann–Wigner hypothesis that consciousness causes collapse has been marginalized within mainstream physics because of its unfalsifiability, the core proposition to which this hypothesis points—namely, the correlation between the observer’s informational state and the system’s evolutionary trajectory—may acquire entirely new theoretical significance in complex macroscopic systems, especially human social systems. This article proposes and systematically constructs Coherent Social Phase Transition Theory (CSPT), aiming to demonstrate that, under normal conditions, human social systems reside in a metastable state described by self-organized criticality (SOC). A low-entropy coherent information field generated by individual consciousness and not decohered by the macroscopic environment can serve as a seed for symmetry breaking and, through a nonlinear cascade amplification mechanism, can significantly influence the final collapse direction of the macroscopic social probability cloud at all scales of human society—from self-regulation to global narratives. The core contributions of this article are as follows: (1) Starting from information thermodynamics, we argue that “strong intention” is physically equivalent to localized low-entropy coherent information and quantify it in terms of coherence time T2 and coherence purity C. (2) By introducing self-organized criticality theory, we demonstrate that the normal state of human society is a critical state with variable correlation length, endowed with a nonlinear capacity to amplify weak ordered signals, and further propose that this correlation length is defined by the “cognitive boundary” within the thinker’s mind. (3) We construct a four-stage dynamical model (coherent latching → weak-coupling injection → critical cascade amplification → path locking) that provides a complete physical picture of the transition from individual inner intention to macroscopic social reality. (4) We propose a preliminary Landau–Ginzburg-type mathematical formalization and derive a quantitative expression for the efficacy of intentional influence. (5) We design a reproducible social-field double-blind experimental protocol to ensure the falsifiability of the theory. This article maintains that CSPT is not an extension of quantum mechanics but rather an analogical transfer of the concepts of coherence and decoherence from quantum information theory to macroscopic social scales. The theory provides an operational, testable, and physically consistent research pathway for discussions of the relationship between consciousness and macroscopic reality, and we recommend positioning it within the emerging interdisciplinary field of “quantum social science.”
The measurement problem in quantum mechanics has, since its inception, given rise to enduring debates concerning the role of the observer and the nature of physical reality. Although the von Neumann–Wigner hypothesis that consciousness causes collapse has been marginalized within mainstream physics because of its unfalsifiability, the core proposition to which this hypothesis points—namely, the correlation between the observer’s informational state and the system’s evolutionary trajectory—may acquire entirely new theoretical significance in complex macroscopic systems, especially human social systems. This article proposes and systematically constructs Coherent Social Phase Transition Theory (CSPT), aiming to demonstrate that, under normal conditions, human social systems reside in a metastable state described by self-organized criticality (SOC). A low-entropy coherent information field generated by individual consciousness and not decohered by the macroscopic environment can serve as a seed for symmetry breaking and, through a nonlinear cascade amplification mechanism, can significantly influence the final collapse direction of the macroscopic social probability cloud at all scales of human society—from self-regulation to global narratives. The core contributions of this article are as follows: (1) Starting from information thermodynamics, we argue that “strong intention” is physically equivalent to localized low-entropy coherent information and quantify it in terms of coherence time T2 and coherence purity C. (2) By introducing self-organized criticality theory, we demonstrate that the normal state of human society is a critical state with variable correlation length, endowed with a nonlinear capacity to amplify weak ordered signals, and further propose that this correlation length is defined by the “cognitive boundary” within the thinker’s mind. (3) We construct a four-stage dynamical model (coherent latching → weak-coupling injection → critical cascade amplification → path locking) that provides a complete physical picture of the transition from individual inner intention to macroscopic social reality. (4) We propose a preliminary Landau–Ginzburg-type mathematical formalization and derive a quantitative expression for the efficacy of intentional influence. (5) We design a reproducible social-field double-blind experimental protocol to ensure the falsifiability of the theory. This article maintains that CSPT is not an extension of quantum mechanics but rather an analogical transfer of the concepts of coherence and decoherence from quantum information theory to macroscopic social scales. The theory provides an operational, testable, and physically consistent research pathway for discussions of the relationship between consciousness and macroscopic reality, and we recommend positioning it within the emerging interdisciplinary field of “quantum social science.”
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the Social Laser Theory (SLT) as a natural extension of the broader framework of Quantum-Like Modeling (QLM). While QLM applies the mathematical formalism of quantum theory . such as Hilbert space representations, interference, and non-commutative observables - to model context-dependent and non-classical phenomena in cognition, decision-making, and social behavior, SLT advances this approach by integrating concepts from quantum field theory. The theory conceptualizes social systems as ensembles of social atoms capable of absorbing and emitting quantized units of social energy. Under conditions analogous to population inversion in physical lasers, external informational stimuli (e.g., media signals or mobilizing rhetoric) can trigger coherence across the population, resulting in large-scale, synchronized collective actions such as protests or ideological shifts. SLT thus provides a formal framework for understanding the amplification and coherence of social energy leading to abrupt phase-like transitions in collective behavior. Beyond its metaphorical appeal, the theory proposes measurable quantities and predictive parameters that may support empirical diagnostics of sociopolitical dynamics. By bridging micro-level psychological processes with macro-level sociological phenomena, SLT extends QLM into the domain of complex social systems, offering a mathematically grounded paradigm for interpreting rapid transformations in contemporary societies.