Interdependent-Network Criticality without a Second Network: Cascading Collapse of the Joule-Coupled Insulator-Metal Transition in $VO_2$

When driven by a large enough electric field or current, the insulating state of vanadium dioxide ($VO_2$) typically collapses abruptly into the metallic state (the insulator-metal transition, IMT) following a brief incubation delay. These incubation delays, typically lasting microseconds or less, h