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Recent observation for scale invariant neural avalanches in the brain have been discussed in details in the scientific literature. We point out, that these results do not necessarily imply that the properties of the underlying neural…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-11 Claudius Gros , Dimitrije Markovic

Power law is one of the the simplest forms of the relationship between different variables of a system. It leads naturally to the introduction of compound parameters describing physical properties of the system. Often one of the variables…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander M. Korsunsky

Recent theoretical advances offer an exact, first-principle theory of jamming criticality in infinite dimension as well as universal scaling relations between critical exponents in all dimensions. For packings of frictionless spheres near…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-21 P. Charbonneau , E. I. Corwin , G. Parisi , F. Zamponi

The electrical energy system has attracted much attention from an increasingly diverse research community. Many theoretical predictions have been made, from scaling laws of fluctuations to propagation velocities of disturbances. However, to…

Scaling laws in ecology, intended both as functional relationships among ecologically-relevant quantities and the probability distributions that characterize their occurrence, have long attracted the interest of empiricists and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-19 Silvia Zaoli , Andrea Giometto , Amos Maritan , Andrea Rinaldo

Quantum-chaotic systems exhibit several universal properties, ranging from level repulsion in the energy spectrum to wavefunction delocalization. On the other hand, if wavefunctions are localized, the levels exhibit no level repulsion and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-19 Simon Jiricek , Miroslav Hopjan , Vladimir Kravtsov , Boris Altshuler , Lev Vidmar

Anomalous diffusion phenomena occur on length scales spanning from intracellular to astrophysical ranges. A specific form of decay at large argument of the probability density function of rescaled displacement (scaling function) is derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-23 Attilio L. Stella , Aleksei Chechkin , Gianluca Teza

This paper develops new limit theory for data that are generated by networks or more generally display cross-sectional dependence structures that are governed by observable and unobservable characteristics. Strategic network formation…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Guido M. Kuersteiner

We uncover a universal scaling law governing the dispersion of collective attention and identify its underlying stochastic criticality. By analysing large-scale ensembles of Wikipedia page views, we find that the variance of logarithmic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-21 Keisuke Okamura

A coupled phase-oscillator model consists of phase-oscillators, each of which has the natural frequency obeying a probability distribution and couples with other oscillators through a given periodic coupling function. This type of model is…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-12-16 Ryosuke Yoneda , Kenji Harada , Yoshiyuki Y. Yamaguchi

We analyze the entropic equation of state for a many-particle interacting system in a scale-free network. The analysis is performed in terms of scaling functions which are of fundamental interest in the theory of critical phenomena and have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-23 C. von Ferber , R. Folk , Yu. Holovatch , R. Kenna , V. Palchykov

Universal intermittent dynamics in a random catalytic reaction network, induced by smallness in the molecule number is reported. Stochastic simulations for a random catalytic reaction network subject to a flow of chemicals show that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-20 Akinori Awazu , Kunihiko Kaneko

Typicality arguments replace the postulated mixed state ensembles of statistical mechanics with pure states sampled uniformly at random, explaining why most microstates of large systems exhibit thermal behavior. This paradigm has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Pedro S. Correia , Gabriel Dias Carvalho , Thiago R. de Oliveira

Over the last decades, impressive progresses have been made in many experimental domains, e.g. microscopic techniques such as single-particle tracking, leading to plethoric amounts of data. In a large variety of systems, from natural to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-03 Xavier Durang , Hyerim Ahn , Jae Youn Shim , Hye Yoon Park , Jae-Hyung Jeon

A generic communication model of a boolean network with transmission errors is proposed to explore the power-law scaling of states' evolution in small-world networks. In the model, the power spectrum of the population difference between…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jiann-Shing Lih , Jyh-Long Chern

The dynamic properties of a classical tracer particle in a random, disordered medium are investigated close to the localization transition. For Lorentz models obeying Newtonian and diffusive motion at the microscale, we have performed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-29 Felix Höfling , Tobias Munk , Erwin Frey , Thomas Franosch

Scaling behavior of scale-free evolving networks arising in communications, citations, collaborations, etc. areas is studied. We derive universal scaling relations describing properties of such networks and indicate limits of their…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. N. Dorogovtsev , J. F. F. Mendes

Crackling noise is observed in many disordered non-equilibrium systems in response to slowly changing external conditions. Examples range from Barkhausen noise in magnets to acoustic emission in martensites to earthquakes. Using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Travesset , R. A. White , K. A. Dahmen

It has been recently found that a number of systems displaying crackling noise also show a remarkable behavior regarding the temporal occurrence of successive events versus their size: a scaling law for the probability distributions of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alvaro Corral

The idea that information-processing systems operate near criticality to enhance computational performance is supported by scaling signatures in brain activity. However, external signals raise the question of whether this behavior is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-10 Rubén Calvo , Carles Martorell , Adrián Roig , Miguel A. Muñoz