Epidemic dynamics of two species of interacting particles on scale-free networks.
We study the nonequilibrium phase transition in a model for epidemic spreading on scale-free networks. The model consists of two particle species A and B, and the coupling between them is taken to be asymmetric; A induces B while B suppresses A. This model describes the spreading of an epidemic on networks equipped with a reactive immune system. We present analytic results on the phase diagram and the critical behavior, which depends on the degree exponent gamma of the underlying scale-free networks. Numerical simulation results that support the analytic results are also presented.
Ahn
Yong-Yeol
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Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea.
Jeong
Hawoong
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Masuda
Naoki
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Noh
Jae Dong
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