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Randomness and frustration are considered to be the key ingredients for the existence of spin glass (SG) phase. In a canonical system, these ingredients are realized by the random mixture of ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AF)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-10-13 Tasrief Surungan , Freddy P. Zen , Anthony G. Williams

The phenomenon of opinion disagreement has been empirically observed and reported in the literature, which is affected by various factors, such as the structure of social networks. An important discovery in network science is that most…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Wanyue Xu , Yubo Sun , Mingzhe Zhu , Zuobai Zhang , Zhongzhi Zhang

Spin systems have emerged as powerful tools for understanding collective phenomena in complex systems. In this work, we investigate the Ashkin--Teller (AT) model on random scale-free networks using mean-field theory, which extends the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-29 Cook Hyun Kim , Hoyun Choi , Joonsung Jung , B. Kahng

We study the critical behavior of the Ising model in annealed scale-free (SF) networks of finite system size with forced upper cutoff in degree. By mapping the model onto the weighted fully connected Ising model, we derive analytic results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-26 Sang Hoon Lee , Meesoon Ha , Hawoong Jeong , Jae Dong Noh , Hyunggyu Park

Crisis informetrics is considered to be a relatively new and emerging area of research, which deals with the application of analytical approaches of network and information science combined with experimental learning approaches of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Liaquat Hossain , Rolf T. Wigand , Shahadat Uddin

We study the critical behavior of Boolean variables on scale-free networks with competing interactions (Ising spin glasses). Our analytical results for the disorder-network-decay-exponent phase diagram are verified using Monte Carlo…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-09-17 Helmut G. Katzgraber , Katharina Janzen , Creighton K. Thomas

In this paper, we address the logarithmic corrections to the leading power laws that govern thermodynamic quantities as a second-order phase transition point is approached. For phase transitions of spin systems on d-dimensional lattices,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-02 V. Palchykov , C. von Ferber , R. Folk , Yu. Holovatch , R. Kenna

Scale-free (SF) networks and small world networks have been found to occur in very diverse contexts. It is this striking universality which makes one look for widely applicable mechanisms which lead to the formation of such networks. In…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Markus Brede , John Finnigan

Systems as diverse as genetic networks or the world wide web are best described as networks with complex topology. A common property of many large networks is that the vertex connectivities follow a scale-free power-law distribution. This…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Albert-Laszlo Barabasi , Reka Albert

We consider a recently introduced generalization of the Ising model in which individual spin strength can vary. The model is intended for analysis of ordering in systems comprising agents which, although matching in their binarity (i.e.,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-28 Mariana Krasnytska , Bertrand Berche , Yurij Holovatch , Ralph Kenna

We study fully synchronized states in scale-free networks of chaotic logistic maps as a function of both dynamical and topological parameters. Three different network topologies are considered: (i) random scale-free topology, (ii)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Pedro G. Lind , Jason A. C. Gallas , Hans J. Herrmann

Many networks in natural and human-made systems exhibit scale-free properties and are small worlds. Now we show that people's understanding of complex systems in their cognitive maps also follow a scale-free topology (P_k = k^-lambda,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Uygar Ozesmi , Can Ozan Tan

Scale-free networks are one of the most famous examples of emergent behavior and are ubiquitous in social systems, especially online social media in which users can follow each other. By analyzing the interactions of multiple generative…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-12-12 Giordano De Marzo , Luciano Pietronero , David Garcia

Random networks with complex topology are common in Nature, describing systems as diverse as the world wide web or social and business networks. Recently, it has been demonstrated that most large networks for which topological information…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 Albert-Laszlo Barabasi , Reka Albert , Hawoong Jeong

An important side effect of the evolution of the human brain is an increased capacity to form opinions in a very large domain of issues, which become points of aggressive interpersonal disputes. Remarkably, such disputes are often no less…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Noah E. Friedkin

We show that there are two classes of finite size effects for dynamic models taking place on a scale-free topology. Some models in finite networks show a behavior that depends only on the system size N. Others present an additional distinct…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-04-21 Claudio Castellano , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

In contrast to the conventional wisdom that scale-free networks are prone to epidemic propagation, in the paper we present that disease spreading is inhibited in fractal scale-free networks. We first propose a novel network model and show…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2008-09-25 Zhongzhi Zhang , Shuigeng Zhou , Zou Tao , Guisheng Chen

The topology of an instant messaging system is described. Statistical measures of the network are given and compared with the statistics of a comparable random graph. The scale-free character of the network is examined and implications are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Reginald D. Smith

We study the dynamical and critical behavior of a model for irreversible opinion spreading on Barab\'asi-Albert (BA) scale-free networks by performing extensive Monte Carlo simulations. The opinion spreading within an inhomogeneous society…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 Julián Candia

All intelligence is collective intelligence, in the sense that it is made of parts which must align with respect to system-level goals. Understanding the dynamics which facilitate or limit navigation of problem spaces by aligned parts thus…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-18 Francesco Sacco , Dalton A R Sakthivadivel , Michael Levin