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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Phase Coexistence in Two-Color Networks

Statistical Mechanics 2016-01-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We have considered an equilibrium ensemble of large Erd\H{o}s-Renyi topological random networks with fixed vertex degree and two types of vertices, black and white, prepared randomly with the bond connection probability, pp. The network energy is a sum of all unicolor triples (either black or white), weighted with chemical potential of triples, μ\mu. Minimizing the system energy, we see for some positive μ\mu formation of two predominantly unicolor clusters, linked by a "string" of NbwN_{bw} black-white bonds. We have demonstrated that the system exhibits critical behavior manifested in emergence of a wide plateau on the Nbw(μ)N_{bw}(\mu)-curve, which is relevant to a spinodal decomposition in 1st order phase transitions. In terms of a string theory, the plateau formation can be interpreted as an entanglement between baby-universes in 2D gravity. We have conjectured that observed classical phenomenon can be considered as a toy model for the chiral condensate formation in quantum chromodynamics.

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@article{arxiv.1506.00205,
  title  = {Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Phase Coexistence in Two-Color Networks},
  author = {V. Avetisov and A. Gorsky and S. Nechaev and O. Valba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.00205},
  year   = {2016}
}

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9 pages, 4 figures