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Total Authors: 4
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| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis, Caixa Postal 66318, BR-05315970 Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil
[2] Univ Fed Sao Joao del Rei, CAP, Dept Fis & Matemat, BR-36420000 Ouro Branco, MG - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 2
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | SCIENTIFIC REPORTS; v. 8, JUN 19 2018. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 5 |
| Abstract | |
Discontinuous transitions have received considerable interest due to the uncovering that many phenomena such as catastrophic changes, epidemic outbreaks and synchronization present a behavior signed by abrupt (macroscopic) changes (instead of smooth ones) as a tuning parameter is changed. However, in different cases there are still scarce microscopic models reproducing such above trademarks. With these ideas in mind, we investigate the key ingredients underpinning the discontinuous transition in one of the simplest systems with up-down Z(2) symmetry recently ascertained in {[}Phys. Rev. E 95, 042304 (2017)]. Such system, in the presence of an extra ingredient-the inertia-has its continuous transition being switched to a discontinuous one in complex networks. We scrutinize the role of three central ingredients: inertia, system degree, and the lattice topology. Our analysis has been carried out for regular lattices and random regular networks with different node degrees (interacting neighborhood) through mean-field theory (MFT) treatment and numerical simulations. Our findings reveal that not only the inertia but also the connectivity constitute essential elements for shifting the phase transition. Astoundingly, they also manifest in low-dimensional regular topologies, exposing a scaling behavior entirely different than those from the complex networks case. Therefore, our findings put on firmer bases the essential issues for the manifestation of discontinuous transitions in such relevant class of systems with Z(2) symmetry. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/24567-0 - Phase transition, temporal disorder and entropy production in systems with inversion symmetry |
| Grantee: | Pedro Eduardo Harunari |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct) |