Social Physics and Quantum Physics:

James J. Wayne

Yimini Shadrack George, Socrates Ebo

Realizing Social Unity in Africa: Insight from Three (3) Relational Models in Quantum Physics Abstract The paper examines three (3) Relational Models in Quantum Physics. It notes that there exists in quantum reality an intercultural supposition of a ‘deep and shared understanding’ that can birth a new metaphysics and model for social relation in a multi-cultural nation state. The paper consider and reject the postures of Postmodernism as destructive. It discusses how postmodernist tendencies impact social relation, and show why the discourse of social relation can best situate in Quantum Physics and not Classical Physics and Postmodernism. The supposition is that (unlike in Classical Physics and even Postmodernism), Quantum bits possesses the capacity to relate internally. This is encouraged as such as its concern is the sort of laws which governs collection of events. It concludes by encouraging a wider sense of self-awareness as to recognize and explore such quantum structures latent in the human person for social unity.

Howard Burton, ARTUR K. EKERT

H. M. Moya-Cessa

It is well-known that, in science, several concepts that apply to an specific area of knowledge, may be borrowed by other areas of knowledge. Namely, resilience, reservoirs, evolution, etc. are concepts that may be used in social sciences, physics, biology and other sciences with complete sense. In this contribution I want to give some insights about some topics of quantum physics that could be used in social sciences.

Andrei Yu. Khrennikov, A. P. Alodjants, A. G. Trofimova +1 more

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.