Volume 46, Issue 20 e70182
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Topology-Induced Modifications in the Critical Behavior of the Yaldram–Khan Catalytic Reaction Model

Paulo F. Gomes

Paulo F. Gomes

Grupo de Redes Complexas Aplicadas de Jataí, Universidade Federal de Jataí, Jataí, Brazil

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Estrada Municipal, Bairro Fazenda Santo Antônio, Aparecida de Goiânia, Brazil

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Henrique A. Fernandes

Henrique A. Fernandes

Grupo de Redes Complexas Aplicadas de Jataí, Universidade Federal de Jataí, Jataí, Brazil

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Roberto da Silva

Corresponding Author

Roberto da Silva

Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Roberto da Silva ([email protected])

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First published: 18 July 2025
Funding: This work was supported by the Brazilian agency CNPq (P. F. Gomes and H. A. Fernandes, Grant No. 405508/2021-2; R. da Silva, Grant No. 304575/2022-4) and by FAPEG (P. F. Gomes, Grant No. 2019/10267000139).

ABSTRACT

In this work, we investigated how the use of complex networks as catalytic surfaces can affect the phase diagram of the Yaldram–Khan model, as well as how the order of the phase transitions present in the seminal work behaves when randomness is added to the model. The study was conducted by taking into consideration two well-known random networks, the Erdős-Rényi network (ERN), with its long-range randomness, and the random geometric graph (RGG), with its spatially constrained randomness. We perform extensive steady-state Monte Carlo simulations for r NO = 1 $$ {r}_{\mathrm{NO}}=1 $$ , the NO dissociation rate, and show the behavior of the reactive window as a function of the average degree of the networks. Our results also show that, different from the ERN, which preserves the nature of the phase transitions of the original model for all considered average degrees, the RGG seems to have two second-order phase transitions for small values of average degree.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Data Availability Statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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