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Nature is a blossoming of regular structures, signature of self-organization of the underlying microscopic interacting agents. Turing theory of pattern formation is one of the most studied mechanisms to address such phenomena and has been…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Riccardo Muolo , Lorenzo Giambagli , Hiroya Nakao , Duccio Fanelli , Timoteo Carletti

We study diffusion on multiplex networks with directed interlayer couplings. We demonstrate both numerically and analytically that even with undirected layers, interlayer directionality alone reproduces superdiffusion and the prime regime.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-28 Mateo Bouchet , Alejandro Tejedor , Xiangrong Wang , Yamir Moreno

We study the time scales associated to diffusion processes that take place on multiplex networks, i.e. on a set of networks linked through interconnected layers. To this end, we propose the construction of a supra-Laplacian matrix, which…

The study of reaction-diffusion systems on networks is of paramount relevance for the understanding of nonlinear processes in systems where the topology is intrinsically discrete, such as the brain. Until now reaction-diffusion systems have…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Lorenzo Giambagli , Lucille Calmon , Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti , Ginestra Bianconi

In this paper the Turing pattern formation mechanism of a two component reaction-diffusion system modeling the Schnakenberg chemical reaction coupled to linear cross-diffusion terms is studied. The linear cross-diffusion terms favors the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-08 G. Gambino , S. Lupo , M. Sammartino

The emergence of stable disordered patterns in reactive system on spatially homogenous substrate is studied in the context of vegetation patterns in the semi-arid climatic zone. It is shown that reaction-diffusion systems that allow for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Alon Manor , Nadav M. Shnerb

The Turing instability is a paradigmatic route to patterns formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Following a diffusion-driven instability, homogeneous fixed points can become unstable when subject to external perturbation. As a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-09-02 Joseph D. Challenger , Raffaella Burioni , Duccio Fanelli

Spreading phenomena essentially underlie the dynamics of various natural and technological networked systems, yet how spatiotemporal propagation patterns emerge from such networks remains largely unknown. Here we propose a novel approach…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-12 Xiaozhu Zhang , Dirk Witthaut , Marc Timme

Pattern formation often occurs in confined systems, yet how boundaries shape patterning dynamics is unclear. We develop techniques to analyze confinement effects in nonlocal advection-diffusion equations, which generically capture the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-11 Jan Rombouts , Michael L Zhao , Alexander Aulehla , Anna Erzberger

The Turing instability paradigm is revisited in the context of a multispecies diffusion scheme derived from a self-consistent microscopic formulation. The analysis is developed with reference to the case of two species. These latter share…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-07-02 Duccio Fanelli , Claudia Cianci , Francesca Di Patti

Turing's theory of pattern formation is a universal model for self-organization, applicable to many systems in physics, chemistry and biology. Essential properties of a Turing system, such as the conditions for the existence of patterns and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-08-02 Xavier Diego , Luciano Marcon , Patrick Müller , James Sharpe

Realistic examples of reaction-diffusion phenomena governing spatial and spatiotemporal pattern formation are rarely isolated systems, either chemically or thermodynamically. However, even formulations of `open' reaction-diffusion systems…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-05-14 Andrew L. Krause , Václav Klika , Philip K. Maini , Denis Headon , Eamonn A. Gaffney

The problem of Turing instabilities for a reaction-diffusion system defined on a complex Cartesian product networks is considered. To this end we operate in the linear regime and expand the time dependent perturbation on a basis formed by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-23 Malbor Asllani , Daniel M. Busiello , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Gwendoline Planchon

In this work we investigate the effect of density dependent nonlinear diffusion on pattern formation in the Brusselator system. Through linear stability analysis of the basic solution we determine the Turing and the oscillatory instability…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Gambino , M. C. Lombardo , M. Sammartino , V. Sciacca

This paper proposes a control theoretic framework to model and analyze the self-organized pattern formation of molecular concentrations in biomolecular communication networks, emerging applications in synthetic biology. In biomolecular…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-08 Yutaka Hori , Hiroki Miyazako , Soichiro Kumagai , Shinji Hara

This paper investigates the conditions for the stability and emergence of patterns in a new three-component reaction-diffusion system. The system describes the coexistence and interaction of water reservoirs, vegetation, and bushfire…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci

In this paper, the Turing instability in reaction-diffusion models defined on complex networks is studied. Here, we focus on three types of models which generate complex networks, i.e. the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi, the Watts-Strogatz, and the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-04-22 Yusuke Ide , Hirofumi Izuhara , Takuya Machida

Different types of interactions coexist and coevolve to shape the structure and function of a multiplex network. We propose here a general class of growth models in which the various layers of a multiplex network coevolve through a set of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-15 Vincenzo Nicosia , Ginestra Bianconi , Vito Latora , Marc Barthelemy

Turing patterns are stationary, wave-like structures that emerge from the nonequilibrium assembly of reactive and diffusive components. While they are foundational in biophysics, their classical formulation relies on a single characteristic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-30 Siamak Mirfendereski , Ankur Gupta

Many complex systems have natural representations as multi-layer networks. While these formulations retain more information than standard single-layer network models, there is not yet a fully developed theory for computing network metrics…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Daryl R. DeFord , Scott D. Pauls