Transições de fase para estados absorventes: um estudo em redes regulares e complexas

• Autor(a) principal: Sander, Renan Servat
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4256
• topic: Transições de fase; Redes complexas; Estados absorventes; Percolação direcionada; Phase transitions; Complex networks; Absorbing states; Directed percolation; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::FISICA::FISICA DA MATERIA CONDENSADA

Phase transitions into absorbing states, configurations from which the system can not escape, are currently a topic in the frontier of nonequilibrium Statistical Physics. Along with a growing interest in phase transitions on complex topologies, there are still many problems being investigated in regular networks, such as the effects of quenched disorder, diffusion, etc. In recent decades, complex networks have been a subject of increasing interest in the scientific community due to the fact that they describe a wide diversity of systems of both technological and intellectual relevance. Gathering the huge size and dynamic nature of real complex networks, the Statistical Physics approach has proven to be very convenient because of its connection with graph theory and the possibility of characterizing the macroscopic phenomena emerging in terms of the dynamics of the basic elements composing the system. In the first part of this dissertation, we have performed simulations using the quasi-stationary (QS) method proposed by Oliveira and Dickman for the contact process (CP), the susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) and the contact replication process (PRC) models in three dimensions, besides reproducing some results already known in the literature with the QE method. Using this method, we determined, for the first time, the moment ratios of the order parameter for the directed percolation (DP) class in three dimensions. We have also shown that the mean-field exponents for the three-dimensional PRC reported in the literature, are transients observed in the spreading analysis. In the second part, we have investigated the phase transition in a new model, proposed in this dissertation: the threshold contact process (TCP). Analyses were performed on regular and scale-free networks. We show that the TCP belongs to the DP universality class in regular networks. In scale-free networks, we show that the critical exponents for the finite-size scaling analysis of the quasi-stationary density of active sites and for the lifetime are the same obtained for the CP on scale-free networks, both in the heterogeneous mean-field theory, and in the QS simulations.