Shu, PanpanGao, LeiZhao, PengchengWang, WeiStanley, Harry Eugene2020-04-022020-04-022017-03-16Panpan Shu, Lei Gao, Pengcheng Zhao, Wei Wang, H Eugene Stanley. 2017. "Social contagions on interdependent lattice networks." SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, Volume 7, 11 pp. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep446692045-2322https://hdl.handle.net/2144/39929Although an increasing amount of research is being done on the dynamical processes on interdependent spatial networks, knowledge of how interdependent spatial networks influence the dynamics of social contagion in them is sparse. Here we present a novel non-Markovian social contagion model on interdependent spatial networks composed of two identical two-dimensional lattices. We compare the dynamics of social contagion on networks with different fractions of dependency links and find that the density of final recovered nodes increases as the number of dependency links is increased. We use a finite-size analysis method to identify the type of phase transition in the giant connected components (GCC) of the final adopted nodes and find that as we increase the fraction of dependency links, the phase transition switches from second-order to first-order. In strong interdependent spatial networks with abundant dependency links, increasing the fraction of initial adopted nodes can induce the switch from a first-order to second-order phase transition associated with social contagion dynamics. In networks with a small number of dependency links, the phase transition remains second-order. In addition, both the second-order and first-order phase transition points can be decreased by increasing the fraction of dependency links or the number of initially-adopted nodes.11 pagesen-USCopyright © The Author(s) 2017. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Science & technologyMultidisciplinary sciencesSpatially embedded networksPercolationBehaviorModelMarkov chainsPhase transitionPopulation densitySocial networkingSpatio-temporal analysisTime factorsBiochemistry and cell biologyOther physical sciencesArticle10.1038/srep44669188536