title: Complex Quantum Network Manifolds in Dimension d > 2 are Scale-Free.
abstract: In quantum gravity, several approaches have been proposed until now for the quantum description of discrete geometries. These theoretical frameworks include loop quantum gravity, causal dynamical triangulations, causal sets, quantum graphity, and energetic spin networks. Most of these approaches describe discrete spaces as homogeneous network manifolds. Here we define Complex Quantum Network Manifolds (CQNM) describing the evolution of quantum network states, and constructed from growing simplicial complexes of dimension d. We show that in d = 2 CQNM are homogeneous networks while for d > 2 they are scale-free i.e. they are characterized by large inhomogeneities of degrees like most complex networks. From the self-organized evolution of CQNM quantum statistics emerge spontaneously. Here we define the generalized degrees associated with the δ-faces of the d-dimensional CQNMs, and we show that the statistics of these generalized degrees can either follow Fermi-Dirac, Boltzmann or Bose-Einstein distributions depending on the dimension of the δ-faces.
authors.affiliation: School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Ginestra
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bianconi
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rahmede