Fig. 4

Spatial behavior of the congestion nodes for the setup introduced in “Center-periphery entanglement with spatial overlap” section. The figure is organized similarly to Figs. 2 and 3: left panels show the network configurations, where blue edges refer to the \(\pi\) density of further DT links we add on top of the MST skeleton in the \([R,R+\Delta R]\) hybrid region. Still, hexagonal bins describe the occurrence of congestion in space. Right panels presents the dependence of congestion radius on the patch one. Here, circles are located at the statistical mode over an ensemble of 100 realizations of different random distributions of \(N=3000\) nodes in a square of side equal to \(L=20\), with \(R^{(DT)}=5\), and \(\Delta R=5\). The figure highlights the emergence of a further intermediate congestion regime, as a consequence of the hybrid region marked in blue