Unusual ferromagnetism in Ising and Potts model on semi-directed Barabási-Albert networks

Abstract

We check the existence of a spontaneous magnetisation of Ising and Potts spins on semi-directed Barabasi-Albert networks by Monte Carlo simulations. We verified that the magnetisation for different temperatures $T$ decays after a characteristic time $\tau (T)$, which we extrapolate to diverge at positive temperatures $T_c(N)$ by a Vogel-Fulcher law, with $T_c(N)$ increasing logarithmically with network size $N$.

arXiv comment14 pages, 8 figures