Nucleation phenomena and extreme vulnerability of spatial k-core systems
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| author | Xue, Leyang Gao, Shengling Gallos, Lazaros K. Levy, Orr Gross, Bnaya Di, Zengru Havlin, Shlomo |
| author_facet | Xue, Leyang Gao, Shengling Gallos, Lazaros K. Levy, Orr Gross, Bnaya Di, Zengru Havlin, Shlomo |
| contents | K-core percolation is a fundamental dynamical process in complex networks with applications that span numerous real-world systems. Earlier studies focus primarily on random networks without spatial constraints and reveal intriguing mixed-order transitions. However, real-world systems, ranging from transportation and communication networks to complex brain networks, are not random but are spatially embedded. Here, we study k-core percolation on two-dimensional spatially embedded networks and show that, in contrast to regular percolation, the length of connections can control the transition type, leading to four different types of phase transitions associated with novel phenomena and a rich phase diagram. A key finding is the existence of a metastable phase in which microscopic localized damage, independent of system size, can cause a macroscopic phase transition, a result which cannot be achieved in traditional percolation. In this case, local failures can spontaneously propagate the damage radially until the system entirely collapses, a phenomenon analogous to the nucleation process. These findings suggest novel features and extreme vulnerabilities of spatially embedded k-core network systems, and highlight the necessity to take into account the characteristic length of links when designing robust spatial networks. Furthermore, our insight about the microscopic processes and their origin during the mixed order and first order abrupt transitions in k-core networks could shed light on the mechanisms of many systems where such transitions occur. |
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| spellingShingle | Nucleation phenomena and extreme vulnerability of spatial k-core systems Xue, Leyang Gao, Shengling Gallos, Lazaros K. Levy, Orr Gross, Bnaya Di, Zengru Havlin, Shlomo Physics and Society K-core percolation is a fundamental dynamical process in complex networks with applications that span numerous real-world systems. Earlier studies focus primarily on random networks without spatial constraints and reveal intriguing mixed-order transitions. However, real-world systems, ranging from transportation and communication networks to complex brain networks, are not random but are spatially embedded. Here, we study k-core percolation on two-dimensional spatially embedded networks and show that, in contrast to regular percolation, the length of connections can control the transition type, leading to four different types of phase transitions associated with novel phenomena and a rich phase diagram. A key finding is the existence of a metastable phase in which microscopic localized damage, independent of system size, can cause a macroscopic phase transition, a result which cannot be achieved in traditional percolation. In this case, local failures can spontaneously propagate the damage radially until the system entirely collapses, a phenomenon analogous to the nucleation process. These findings suggest novel features and extreme vulnerabilities of spatially embedded k-core network systems, and highlight the necessity to take into account the characteristic length of links when designing robust spatial networks. Furthermore, our insight about the microscopic processes and their origin during the mixed order and first order abrupt transitions in k-core networks could shed light on the mechanisms of many systems where such transitions occur. |
| title | Nucleation phenomena and extreme vulnerability of spatial k-core systems |
| topic | Physics and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13579 |