An anomalous topological phase transition in spatial random graphs

The Berezinskii, Kosterlitz, and Thouless (BKT) model shows that there are finite temperature phase transitions driven not by symmetry breaking, but rather by topological defects such as vortices. The authors show that a transition occurring in a general class of sparse space random networks model i...

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Main Authors: Jasper van der Kolk, M. Ángeles Serrano, Marián Boguñá
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-10-01
Series:Communications Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-01023-w