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Rare regions of the susceptible-infected-susceptible model on Barabási-Albert networks

Ódor, Géza (2013) Rare regions of the susceptible-infected-susceptible model on Barabási-Albert networks. PHYSICAL REVIEW E - STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS, 87 (4). 042132-1. ISSN 1539-3755

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Abstract

I extend a previous work to susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) models on weighted Barabási-Albert scale-free networks. Numerical evidence is provided that phases with slow, power-law dynamics emerge as the consequence of quenched disorder and tree topologies studied previously with the contact process. I compare simulation results with spectral analysis of the networks and show that the quenched mean-field (QMF) approximation provides a reliable, relatively fast method to explore activity clustering. This suggests that QMF can be used for describing rare-region effects due to network inhomogeneities. Finite-size study of the QMF shows the expected disappearance of the epidemic threshold λc in the thermodynamic limit and an inverse participation ratio ∼0.25, meaning localization in case of disassortative weight scheme. Contrarily, for the multiplicative weights and the unweighted trees, this value vanishes in the thermodynamic limit, suggesting only weak rare-region effects in agreement with the dynamical simulations. Strong corrections to the mean-field behavior in case of disassortative weights explains the concave shape of the order parameter ρ(λ) at the transition point. Application of this method to other models may reveal interesting rare-region effects, Griffiths phases as the consequence of quenched topological heterogeneities.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Q Science / természettudomány > QC Physics / fizika
Depositing User: Andrea Bolgár
Date Deposited: 30 Apr 2013 07:21
Last Modified: 04 Apr 2023 12:32
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/4967

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