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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 218701 (2010) [4 pages]

Critical Fluctuations in Spatial Complex Networks

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Serena Bradde1, Fabio Caccioli1, Luca Dall’Asta2, and Ginestra Bianconi3
1International School for Advanced Studies, via Beirut 2/4, 34014, Trieste, Italy
2The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste, Italy
3Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 USA

Received 3 December 2009; published 26 May 2010

An anomalous mean-field solution is known to capture the nontrivial phase diagram of the Ising model in annealed complex networks. Nevertheless, the critical fluctuations in random complex networks remain mean field. Here we show that a breakdown of this scenario can be obtained when complex networks are embedded in geometrical spaces. Through the analysis of the Ising model on annealed spatial networks, we reveal, in particular, the spectral properties of networks responsible for critical fluctuations and we generalize the Ginsburg criterion to complex topologies.

© 2010 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.218701
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.218701
PACS:
89.75.Hc, 64.60.aq