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arXiv:2409.01453 · Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Universal Critical Phase Diagram Using Gini Index

Soumyaditya Das, Soumyajyoti Biswas

Published Sep 19, 2025• 0 citations
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Abstract

The critical phase surface of a system, in general, can depend on one or more parameters. We show that by calculating the Gini index ($g$) of any suitably defined response function of a system, the critical phase surface can always be reduced to that of a single parameter, starting from $g=0$ and terminating at $g=g_f$, where $g_f$ is a universal number for a chosen response function in a given universality class. We demonstrate the construction with analytical and numerical calculations of mean field transverse field Ising model and site diluted Ising model on the Bethe lattice, respectively. Both models have two parameter critical phase surfaces -- transverse field and temperature for the first case and site dilution and temperature in the second case. Both can be reduced to single parameter transition points in terms of the Gini index. We have additionally demonstrated the validity of the method for a mean field two parameter opinion dynamics model that includes a tri-critical point. The method is generally applicable for any multi-parameter critical transition.

DOI
10.7566/jpsj.94.104004

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