Community structure mining method based on network potential energy

The invention provides a community structure mining method based on network potential energy. The community structure mining method comprises the following steps of: introducing a physical concept of potential energy into a complex network, defining node potential energy and network potential energy of the complex network, dividing the complex network by virtue of an optimal potential function, and finally mining a community structure in the complex network. Because the network potential energy can better utilize topological information of the network to reflect the closeness of a topological structure of the whole network, the community structure mining method can be used for greatly improving the detection precision of the community structure.