Cho Young Sul
Department of Physics, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea.
Research Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea.
Sci Adv. 2025 Apr 18;11(16):eadt0355. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adt0355.
When a governor occupies links one by one to globally suppress the formation of large clusters, a macroscopic cluster emerges discontinuously. We report here a mechanism by which a macroscopic cluster emerges discontinuously when each node rewires its links to locally suppress the formation of large clusters as links are occupied. In this manner, each node may compete with its neighbors to suppress the growth of its cluster, but the formation of a macroscopic cluster is suppressed cooperatively, and this results in discontinuous percolation transitions. This result implies that each entity actively participating in suppressing macroscopic phenomena, such as an epidemic or forest fire, could potentially lead to a rapid outbreak.
当一个调控者逐个占据链接以全局抑制大集群的形成时，一个宏观集群会不连续地出现。我们在此报告一种机制，即当每个节点重新连接其链接以局部抑制大集群的形成（随着链接被占据）时，宏观集群会不连续地出现。通过这种方式，每个节点可能会与其邻居竞争以抑制其集群的增长，但宏观集群的形成是协同抑制的，这导致了不连续的渗流转变。这一结果意味着，每个积极参与抑制宏观现象（如流行病或森林火灾）的实体都可能潜在地导致快速爆发。
