Fermionic Networks: Modeling Adaptive Complex Networks with Fermionic Gases

TL;DR

This paper introduces Fermionic networks, a model based on fermionic gases, demonstrating how temperature influences network structure, but not opinion dynamics, highlighting their role as adaptive complex systems.

Contribution

The study models adaptive networks using fermionic gases and analyzes how temperature affects network structure and opinion dynamics, revealing structural adaptation without impacting opinion outcomes.

Findings

Network structure varies with temperature, affecting degree distribution and assortativity.

Fermionic networks behave as adaptive networks with temperature-dependent properties.

Opinion dynamics are unaffected by gas temperature, only structural properties are influenced.

Abstract

We study the structure of Fermionic networks, i.e., a model of networks based on the behavior of fermionic gases, and we analyze dynamical processes over them. In this model, particle dynamics have been mapped to the domain of networks, hence a parameter representing the temperature controls the evolution of the system. In doing so, it is possible to generate adaptive networks, i.e., networks whose structure varies over time. As shown in previous works, networks generated by quantum statistics can undergo critical phenomena as phase transitions and, moreover, they can be considered as thermodynamic systems. In this study, we analyze Fermionic networks and opinion dynamics processes over them, framing this network model as a computational model useful to represent complex and adaptive systems. Results highlight that a strong relation holds between the gas temperature and the structure of the achieved networks. Notably, both the degree distribution and the assortativity vary as the temperature varies, hence we can state that fermionic networks behave as adaptive networks. On the other hand, it is worth to highlight that we did not find relation between outcomes of opinion dynamics processes and the gas temperature. Therefore, although the latter plays a fundamental role in gas dynamics, on the network domain its importance is related only to structural properties of fermionic networks.