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Disordered fibrous networks are ubiquitous in nature as major structural components of living cells and tissues. The mechanical stability of networks generally depends on the degree of connectivity: only when the average number of…

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Solid materials possess both long-range order and some degree of disorder are critical for understanding the nature of crystal and glassy state, but how to controllable introduce specific type of disorder into a crystalline material is a…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-19 Hongmei Qin , Jiahui Wang , Na Lin , Xiaoxu Sun , Yin Chen

Twisted and rope-like assemblies of filamentous molecules are common and vital structural elements in cells and tissue of living organisms. We study the intrinsic frustration occurring in these materials between the two-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 Amir Azadi , Gregory M. Grason

Dynamical patterns in complex networks of coupled oscillators are both of theoretical and practical interest, yet to fully reveal and understand the interplay between pattern emergence and network structure remains to be an outstanding…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-03 Dongmei Song , Yafeng Wang , Xiang Gao , Shi-Xian Qu , Ying-Cheng Lai , Xingang Wang

Recently it was shown (I.A.Gruzberg, A. Kl\"umper, W. Nuding and A. Sedrakyan, Phys.Rev.B 95, 125414 (2017)) that taking into account random positions of scattering nodes in the network model with $U(1)$ phase disorder yields a localization…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-09 Andreas Klümper , Win Nuding , Ara Sedrakyan

Diluted neural networks with continuous neurons and nonmonotonic transfer function are studied, with both fixed and dynamic synapses. A noisy stimulus with periodic variance results in a mechanism for controlling chaos in neural systems…

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Modular networks, such as critical infrastructures, are often built from distinct, densely connected modules (e.g., cities) that are sparsely interconnected. When such networks are gradually and randomly disrupted under a percolation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-12 Yael Kfir-Cohen , Dana Ben Porath , Bnaya Gross , Sergey Buldyrev , Shlomo Havlin

Both quantum phase transitions and thermodynamic phase transitions are probably induced by fluctuations, yet the specific mechanism through which fluctuations cause phase transitions remains unclear in existing theories. This paper…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-13 Yonglong Ding

In this work I have studied the effect of disorder and system size in fiber bundle model with a certain range of stress redistribution. The strength of the bundle as well as the failure abruptness is observed with varying disorder, stress…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-02 Subhadeep Roy

As a function of connectivity, spring networks exhibit a critical transition between floppy and rigid phases at an isostatic threshold. For connectivity below this threshold, fiber networks were recently shown theoretically to exhibit a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-15 Jordan Shivers , Sadjad Arzash , Abhinav Sharma , Fred C. MacKintosh

The dynamics of an extremely diluted neural network with high order synapses acting as corrections to the Hopfield model is investigated. As in the fully connected case, the high order terms may strongly improve the storage capacity of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 N. Lemke , J. J. Arenzon , F. A. Tamarit

Disordered hyperuniform many-particle systems have attracted considerable recent attention. One important class of such systems is the classical ground states of "stealthy potentials." The degree of order of such ground states depends on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-02 G. Zhang , F. H. Stillinger , S. Torquato

We study the different phases of a system of monodispersed hard rods of length $k$ on a cubic lattice using an efficient cluster algorithm which can simulate densities close to the fully-packed limit. For $k\leq 4$, the system is disordered…

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The interdependency between different network layers is commonly observed in Cyber Physical Systems and communication networks adopting the dissociation of logic and hardware implementation, such as Software Defined Networking and Network…

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We consider materials whose mechanical integrity is the result of a jamming process. We argue that such media are generically "fragile": unable to support certain types of incremental loading without plastic rearrangement. Fragility is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. Cates , J. Wittmer , J. P. Bouchaud , P. Claudin

Multilayer systems are coupled networks characterized by different contexts (layers) of interaction and have gained much attention recently due to their suitability to describe a broad spectrum of empirical complex systems. They are very…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-21 Oriol Artime , Manlio De Domenico

The dynamical properties and mechanical functions of amorphous materials are governed by their microscopic structures, particularly the elasticity of the interaction networks, which is generally complicated by structural heterogeneity. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-11 Le Yan

Features of a topological phase, and edge states in particular, may be obscured by overlapping in energy with a trivial conduction band. The topological nature of such a conductor, however, is revealed in its transport properties,…

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The modulus of a rigid network of harmonic springs depends on the sum of the energies in each of the bonds due to the applied distortion: compression in the case of the bulk modulus, $B$, or shear in the case of the shear modulus,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-13 Daniel Hexner , Andrea J. Liu , Sidney R. Nagel