Heterogeneous excitable systems exhibit Griffiths phases below hybrid phase transitions

In \(d > 2\) dimensional, homogeneous threshold models discontinuous transition occur, but the mean-field solution provides \(1/t\) power-law activity decay and other power-laws, thus it is called mixed-order or hybrid type. It has recently been shown that the introduction of quenched disorder ro...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2021-01
Main Authors: Ódor, Géza, de Simoni, Beatriz
Format: Article
Language:English
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Discontinuity
Phase transitions
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Summary:In \(d > 2\) dimensional, homogeneous threshold models discontinuous transition occur, but the mean-field solution provides \(1/t\) power-law activity decay and other power-laws, thus it is called mixed-order or hybrid type. It has recently been shown that the introduction of quenched disorder rounds the discontinuity and second order phase transition and Griffiths phases appear. Here we provide numerical evidence, that even in case of high graph dimensional hierarchical modular networks the Griffiths phase of the \(K=2\) threshold model is present below the hybrid phase transition. This is due to the fragmentation of the activity propagation by modules, which are connected via single links. This provides a widespread mechanism in case of threshold type of heterogeneous systems, modeling the brain or epidemics for the occurrence of dynamical criticality in extended Griffiths phase parameter spaces. We investigate this in synthetic modular networks with and without inhibitory links as well as in the presence of refractory states.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2011.13778