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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…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 A. Sharma , A. J. Licup , R. Rens , M. Sheinman , K. A. Jansen , G. H. Koenderink , F. C. MacKintosh

Networks are useful descriptions of the structure of many complex systems. Unsurprisingly, it is thus important to analyze the robustness of networks in many scientific disciplines. In applications in communication, logistics, finance,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-16 Alice C. Schwarze , Jessica Jiang , Jonny Wray , Mason A. Porter

Gapped fracton phases of matter generalize the concept of topological order and broaden our fundamental understanding of entanglement in quantum many-body systems. However, their analytical or numerical description beyond exactly solvable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-30 Guo-Yi Zhu , Ji-Yao Chen , Peng Ye , Simon Trebst

We study structural changes of adaptive networks in the co-evolutionary susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) network model along its phase transition. We clarify to what extent these changes can be used as early-warning signs for the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-11-07 Leonhard Horstmeyer , Christian Kuehn , Stefan Thurner

During the last few years an area of active research in the field of complex systems is that of their information storing and processing abilities. Common opinion has it that the most interesting beaviour of these systems is found ``at the…

adap-org · Physics 2007-05-23 Bartolo Luque , Antonio Ferrera

We analyze the non-equilibrium order-disorder transition of Axelrod's model of social interaction in several complex networks. In a small world network, we find a transition between an ordered homogeneous state and a disordered state. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Konstantin Klemm , Victor M. Eguiluz , Raul Toral , Maxi San Miguel

Although ubiquitous, interactions of groups of individuals (e.g., modern messaging applications, group meetings, or even a parliament discussion) are not yet thoroughly studied. Frequently, single-groups are modeled as critical-mass…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-19 Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Giovanni Petri , Pablo Martín Rodriguez , Yamir Moreno

Quantum phase transitions are a ubiquitous many-body phenomenon that occurs in a wide range of physical systems, including superconductors, quantum spin liquids, and topological materials. However, investigations of quantum critical systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-06 Timo Kist , Jose L. Lado , Christian Flindt

We detect the quantum phase transition of a quantum many-body system by mapping the observed results of the quantum state onto a neural network. In the present study, we utilized the simplest case of a quantum many-body system, namely a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-26 Shunta Arai , Masayuki Ohzeki , Kazuyuki Tanaka

Percolation is a fundamental concept that brought new understanding on the robustness properties of complex systems. Here we consider percolation on weakly interacting networks, that is, network layers coupled together by much less…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-10 Giacomo Rapisardi , Alex Arenas , Guido Caldarelli , Giulio Cimini

One of the challenging problems in the condensed matter physics is to understand the quantum many-body systems, especially, their physical mechanisms behind. Since there are only a few complete analytical solutions of these systems, several…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-27 Jozef Genzor , Tomotoshi Nishino , Andrej Gendiar

The recent discovery of universal principles underlying many complex networks occurring across a wide range of length scales in the biological world has spurred physicists in trying to understand such features using techniques from…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sitabhra Sinha

As a promising computational paradigm, occurrence of critical states in artificial and biological neural networks has attracted wide-spread attention. An often-made explicit or implicit assumption is that one single critical state is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-15 Karlis Kanders , Tom Lorimer , Yoko Uwate , Willi-Hans Steeb , Ruedi Stoop

Most models of complex systems have been homogeneous, i.e., all elements have the same properties (spatial, temporal, structural, functional). However, most natural systems are heterogeneous: few elements are more relevant, larger,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-12-22 Amahury Jafet López-Díaz , Fernanda Sánchez-Puig , Carlos Gershenson

Clustering $\unicode{x2013}$ the tendency for neighbors of nodes to be connected $\unicode{x2013}$ quantifies the coupling of a complex network to its latent metric space. In random geometric graphs, clustering undergoes a continuous phase…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-22 Jasper van der Kolk , M. Ángeles Serrano , Marián Boguñá

A crucial challenge in network theory is the study of the robustness of a network after facing a sequence of failures. In this work, we propose a dynamical definition of network's robustness based on Information Theory, that considers…

Many critical infrastructure systems have network structure and are under stress. Despite their national importance, the complexity of large-scale transport networks means we do not fully understand their vulnerabilities to cascade…

Rigid body interactions are fundamental to numerous scientific disciplines, but remain challenging to simulate due to their abrupt nonlinear nature and sensitivity to complex, often unknown environmental factors. These challenges call for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Amaury Wei , Olga Fink

Our general subject is the emergence of phases, and phase transitions, in large networks subjected to a few variable constraints. Our main result is the analysis, in the model using edge and triangle subdensities for constraints, of a sharp…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Charles Radin , Kui Ren , Lorenzo Sadun

From transportation networks to complex infrastructures, and to social and communication networks, a large variety of systems can be described in terms of multiplexes formed by a set of nodes interacting through different networks (layers).…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Davide Cellai , Eduardo López , Jie Zhou , James P. Gleeson , Ginestra Bianconi