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Quantitative understanding of human behaviors provides elementary comprehension of the complexity of many human-initiated systems. A basic assumption embedded in the previous analyses on human dynamics is that its temporal statistics are…

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The dynamic spatial redistribution of individuals is a key driving force of various spatiotemporal phenomena on geographical scales. It can synchronise populations of interacting species, stabilise them, and diversify gene pools [1-3].…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Brockmann , L. Hufnagel , T. Geisel

We investigate the communication sequences of millions of people through two different channels and analyze the fine grained temporal structure of correlated event trains induced by single individuals. By focusing on correlations between…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-04 Márton Karsai , Kimmo Kaski , János Kertész

Understanding how simple local interactions give rise to emergent exploration patterns is a fundamental question in statistical physics. We introduce a minimal model of two coupled agents that avoid retracing their own paths while being…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-24 Nick Dashti , M. N. Najafi , Debra J. Searles

We investigate the response function of human agents as demonstrated by written correspondence, uncovering a new universal pattern for how the reactive dynamics of individuals is distributed across the set of each agent's contacts. In…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-29 Marco Formentin , Alberto Lovison , Amos Maritan , Giovanni Zanzotto

In social networks, bursts of activity often result from the imitative behavior between interacting agents. The Ising model, along with its variants in the social sciences, serves as a foundational framework to explain these phenomena…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-08-29 Sornette Didier , Sandro Lera , Jianhong Lin , Ke Wu

A random flight on a plane with non-isotropic displacements at the moments of direction changes is considered. In the case of exponentially distributed flight lengths a Gaussian limit theorem is proved for the position of a particle in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-10 Mark Kelbert , Enzo Orsingher

People communicate with those who have the same background or share a common interest by using a social networking service (SNS). News or messages propagate through inhomogeneous connections in an SNS by sharing or facilitating additional…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-04-16 Tomokatsu Onaga , Shigeru Shinomoto

Martensites subjected to quasistatic deformation are known to exhibit power law distributed acoustic emission in a broad range of scales, however, the origin of the observed scaling behavior and the mechanism of self-organization towards…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Oğuz Umut Salman , Alphonse Finel , Lev Truskinovsky

We investigate diffusion of excitation in one- and two-dimensional lattices with random on-site energies and deterministic long-range couplings (hopping) inversely proportional to the distance. Three regimes of diffusion are observed in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-11-18 Karol Kawa , Paweł Machnikowski

Many studies in Economics and other disciplines have been reporting distributions following power-law behavior (i.e distributions of incomes (Pareto's law), city sizes (Zipf's law), frequencies of words in long sequences of text etc.)[1, 6,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-10 Francesco Vallone

Hysteresis, the lag between the force and the response, is often associated with noisy, jerky motion which have recently been called ``avalanches''. The interesting question is why the avalanches come in such a variety of sizes: naively one…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 James P. Sethna , Olga Perkovic , Karin A. Dahmen

Recently research on bubble and its burst attract much interest of researchers in various field such as economics and physics. Economists have been regarding bubble as a disorder in prices. However, this research strategy has overlooked an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-19 Katsuhiro Nishinari , Mitsuru Iwamura , Yukiko Umeno Saito , Tsutomu Watanabe

Weblog is the fourth way of network exchange after Email, BBS and MSN. Most bloggers begin to write blogs with great interest, and then their interests gradually achieve a balance with the passage of time. In order to describe the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Jin-Li Guo

In this paper, we investigate the arising communication patterns on social media, and in particular the series of events happening for a single user. While the distribution of inter-event times is often assimilated to power-law density…

Persuasive scholarship presents how individual daily travel habits implicate congestion, environmental pollution, and the travel experience. However, the empirical characteristics and dynamics of travel habits remain poorly understood.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-07 Jiwon Kim , Jonathan Corcoran

The Airy line ensemble is a random collection of continuous ordered paths that plays an important role within random matrix theory and the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class. The aim of this paper is to prove a universality property of…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Denis Denisov , Will FitzGerald , Vitali Wachtel

Atmospheric flows exhibit selfsimilar fractal spacetime fluctuations manifested as the fractal geometry to global cloud cover pattern and inverse power law form for power spectra of meteorological parameters such as windspeed, temperature,…

General Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 A. M. Selvam

Power-law distributions are widely recognized in complex systems physics as indicative of underlying complexity in interaction networks and critical macroscopic behavior. Previous studies, notably those of Newman and others, have emphasized…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-19 Tommaso Rondini , Gregorio Berselli , Mirko Degli Esposti , Armando Bazzani

Human activities can play a crucial role in the statistical properties of observables in many complex systems such as social, technological and economic systems. We demonstrate this by looking into the heavy-tailed distributions of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-08-24 Jie-Jun Tseng , Ming-Jer Lee , Sai-Ping Li