Entanglement plays an important role in evolutionary generalized prisoner's dilemma game on small-world networks

Xi Yong, Hong Liang Sun, Juan Li

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Abstract

Cooperation is a fundamental aspect of biological systems and human society. In this work, we propose a generalized prisoner's dilemma quantum game and study the game on Watts-Strogatz small-world network (WS model) with different values of entanglement. Here entanglement is used as a metaphor to study relationship between players. In a single step, each player has three strategies to choose: cooperation, defection and adopting a special quantum strategy first introduced by Eisert (denoted by Q). The person who chooses the quantum strategy Q can be regarded as a super cooperator. In prisoner's dilemma game, cooperation is very hard to emerge on relatively homogeneous networks, such as random graphs and WS model. Our experimental results show that in generalized prisoners dilemma quantum game, entanglement can guarantee emergence of super cooperators and greatly increase the payoff of the whole network. Even on homogeneous networks with very large inducement value(b is close to 2), the frequency of cooperators can still exceeds 70%. This work provides a new insight into understanding cooperation when considering the role of relationship between cooperators.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2016 IEEE Advanced Information Management, Communicates, Electronic and Automation Control Conference, IMCEC 2016
EditorsBing Xu
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages319-324
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781467396127
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Feb 2017
Event2016 IEEE Advanced Information Management, Communicates, Electronic and Automation Control Conference, IMCEC 2016 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 3 Oct 20165 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2016 IEEE Advanced Information Management, Communicates, Electronic and Automation Control Conference, IMCEC 2016

Conference

Conference2016 IEEE Advanced Information Management, Communicates, Electronic and Automation Control Conference, IMCEC 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period3/10/165/10/16

Keywords

  • Complex Networks
  • Evolutionary Game
  • Quantum Game
  • Small-World Networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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