Construction of equilibrium networks with an energy function

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/40/32/001MaRDI QIDQ5757627zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daun Jeong, M. Y. Choi, Hyunggyu Park

Publication date 7 September 2007

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.0531

Boltzmann distribution mean field phase transition

Applications of Markov renewal processes (reliability, queueing networks, etc.) (60K20) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Stochastic methods applied to problems in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B31)

Abstract: We construct equilibrium networks by introducing an energy function depending on the degree of each node as well as the product of neighboring degrees. With this topological energy function, networks constitute a canonical ensemble, which follows the Boltzmann distribution for given temperature. It is observed that the system undergoes a topological phase transition from a random network to a star or a fully-connected network as the temperature is lowered. Both mean-field analysis and numerical simulations reveal strong first-order phase transitions at temperatures which decrease logarithmically with the system size. Quantitative discrepancies of the simulation results from the mean-field prediction are discussed in view of the strong first-order nature.

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