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Dynamics of condensation in growing complex networks Export

Physical Review E, Vol. 78, No. 5. (November 2008), pp. 056102-056102.

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A condensation transition was predicted for growing technological networks evolving by preferential attachment and competing quality of their nodes, as described by the fitness model. When this condensation occurs, a node acquires a finite fraction of all the links of the network. Earlier studies based on steady-state degree distribution and on the mapping to Bose-Einstein condensation were able to identify the critical point. Here we characterize the dynamics of condensation and we present evidence that below the condensation temperature there is a slow down of the dynamics and that a single node (not necessarily the best node in the network) emerges as the winner for very long times. The characteristic time t* at which this phenomenon occurs diverges both at the critical point and at T0 when new links are attached deterministically to the highest quality node of the network.


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