Figure 6
From: Potential energy of complex networks: a quantum mechanical perspective

Potentials for \(p>p_c\). Left: comparison between ensemble potentials \(V_m\) in the right panel of Fig. 5 (continuous lines) and their best fits with the functional form \(V_\text {fit}(x,p)\) in Eq. (8) (dashed lines). Center: best fit values of a (whose absolute value represents the depth of the potential well) vs p; the fit yields \(a \sim \left( p-p_{c}\right) ^{-\alpha }\), with \(\alpha \simeq 1.60 \pm 0.22\). Right: best fit values of b (width of the potential well) vs p; the fit yields \(b \sim \left( p-p_{c}\right) ^{-\beta }\), with \(\beta \simeq 1.35 \pm 0.13\).