Scale-freeness for networks as a degenerate ground state: A Hamiltonian formulation

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2007-03-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703242v1

EPL 78, No 2, 28004 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

7 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Europhysics letter

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/78/28004

The origin of scale-free degree distributions in the context of networks is addressed through an analogous non-network model in which the node degree corresponds to the number of balls in a box and the rewiring of links to balls moving between the boxes. A statistical mechanical formulation is presented and the corresponding Hamiltonian is derived. The energy, the entropy, as well as the degree distribution and its fluctuations are investigated at various temperatures. The scale-free distribution is shown to correspond to the degenerate ground state, which has small fluctuations in the degree distribution and yet a large entropy. We suggest an implication of our results from the viewpoint of the stability in evolution of networks.

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