2D additive small-world network with distance-dependent interactions

TL;DR

This study uses Monte Carlo simulations to analyze the Ising model on a 2D additive small-world network with distance-dependent long-range interactions, revealing critical behavior changes based on the decay parameter.

Contribution

It introduces a 2D additive small-world network with power-law decaying long-range interactions and investigates its critical behavior, highlighting the influence of interaction decay on phase transitions.

Findings

Mean-field critical behavior only at α=0

Crossover behavior influenced by network size

Critical behavior similar to short-range interactions at α≈2

Abstract

In this work, we have employed Monte Carlo calculations to study the Ising model on a 2D additive small-world network with long-range interactions depending on the geometric distance between interacting sites. The network is initially defined by a regular square lattice and with probability $p$ each site is tested for the possibility of creating a long-range interaction with any other site that has not yet received one. Here, we used the specific case where $p=1$, meaning that every site in the network has one long-range interaction in addition to the short-range interactions of the regular lattice. These long-range interactions depend on a power-law form, $J_{ij}=r_{ij}^{-\alpha}$, with the geometric distance $r_{ij}$ between connected sites $i$ and $j$. In current two-dimensional model, we found that mean-field critical behavior is observed only at $\alpha=0$. As $\alpha$ increases, the network size influences the phase transition point of the system, i.e., indicating a crossover behavior. However, given the two-dimensional system, we found the critical behavior of the short-range interaction at $\alpha\approx2$. Thus, the limitation in the number of long-range interactions compared to the globally coupled model, as well as the form of the decay of these interactions, prevented us from finding a regime with finite phase transition points and continuously varying critical exponents in $0<\alpha<2$.