Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2007-04-30
Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 1275 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Review article, 79 pages, 43 figures, 1 table, 508 references, extended
Scientific paper
10.1103/RevModPhys.80.1275
The combination of the compactness of networks, featuring small diameters, and their complex architectures results in a variety of critical effects dramatically different from those in cooperative systems on lattices. In the last few years, researchers have made important steps toward understanding the qualitatively new critical phenomena in complex networks. We review the results, concepts, and methods of this rapidly developing field. Here we mostly consider two closely related classes of these critical phenomena, namely structural phase transitions in the network architectures and transitions in cooperative models on networks as substrates. We also discuss systems where a network and interacting agents on it influence each other. We overview a wide range of critical phenomena in equilibrium and growing networks including the birth of the giant connected component, percolation, k-core percolation, phenomena near epidemic thresholds, condensation transitions, critical phenomena in spin models placed on networks, synchronization, and self-organized criticality effects in interacting systems on networks. We also discuss strong finite size effects in these systems and highlight open problems and perspectives.
Dorogovtsev S. N.
Goltsev A. V.
Mendes Jose Fernando F.
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