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Multiplex networks describe a large number of complex social, biological and transportation networks where a set of nodes is connected by links of different nature and connotation. Here we uncover the rich community structure of multiplex…

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The emergence of detailed maps of physical networks, like the brain connectome, vascular networks, or composite networks in metamaterials, whose nodes and links are physical entities, have demonstrated the limits of the current network…

Recent experimental realizations of liquid-liquid phase separation of active liquid crystals have offered an insight into the interaction between phase separation, ubiquitous in soft matter and biology, and chaotic active flows. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-23 Paarth Gulati , Fernando Caballero , M. Cristina Marchetti

Many complex systems in nature and society can be described in terms of networks capturing the intricate web of connections among the units they are made of. A key question is how to interpret the global organization of such networks as the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Gergely Palla , Imre Derenyi , Illes Farkas , Tamas Vicsek

In most systems, its division into interacting constituent elements gives rise to a natural network structure. Analyzing the dynamics of these elements and the topology of these natural graphs gave rise to the fields of (nonlinear) dynamics…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Sophia R. Sklan , Baowen Li

The links of a physical network cannot cross, which often forces the network layout into non-optimal entangled states. Here we define a network fabric as a two-dimensional projection of a network and propose the average crossing number as a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-03-05 Cory Glover , Albert-László Barabási

The fundamental idea of embedding a network in a metric space is rooted in the principle of proximity preservation. Nodes are mapped into points of the space with pairwise distance that reflects their proximity in the network. Popular…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-15 Yi-Jiao Zhang , Kai-Cheng Yang , Filippo Radicchi

Comprehending complex systems by simplifying and highlighting important dynamical patterns requires modeling and mapping higher-order network flows. However, complex systems come in many forms and demand a range of representations,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Daniel Edler , Ludvig Bohlin , Martin Rosvall

The study of the topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, and today we have a fairly good understanding of the types and reoccurring characteristics of many different complex networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Trédan

Interactions between elements, which are usually represented by networks, have to delineate potentially unequal relationships in terms of their relative importance or direction. The intrinsic unequal relationships of such kind, however, are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-12-01 Mi Jin Lee , Eun Lee , Byunghwee Lee , Hawoong Jeong , Deok-Sun Lee , Sang Hoon Lee

Waste production, carbon dioxide atmospheric accumulation, and dependence on finite natural resources are expressions of the unsustainability of the current industrial networks that supply fuels, energy, and manufacturing products. In…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Federico Zocco , Pantelis Sopasakis , Beatrice Smyth , Wassim M. Haddad

We explore the interplay of network structure, topology, and dynamic interactions between nodes using the paradigm of distributed synchronization in a network of coupled oscillators. As the network evolves to a global steady state,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-04 Kristina Lerman , Rumi Ghosh

The propagation of traffic congestion along roads is a commonplace nonlinear phenomenon. When many roads are connected in a network, congestion can spill from one road to others as drivers queue to enter a congested road, creating further…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Matthew A. Wright , Roberto Horowitz , Alex A. Kurzhanskiy

The observed architecture of ecological and socio-economic networks differs significantly from that of random networks. From a network science standpoint, non-random structural patterns observed in real networks call for an explanation of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-30 Manuel Sebastian Mariani , Zhuo-Ming Ren , Jordi Bascompte , Claudio Juan Tessone

Complex network theory provides a powerful framework to statistically investigate the topology of local and non-local statistical interrelationships, i.e. teleconnections, in the climate system. Climate networks constructed from the same…

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Over the last decade, an enormous interest and activity in complex networks have been witnessed within the physics community. On the other hand, diffusion and its theory, have equipped the toolbox of the physicist for decades. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-04 Ingve Simonsen

An ecological flow network is a weighted directed graph in which nodes are species, edges are "who eats whom" relationships and weights are rates of energy or nutrients transfer between species. Allometric scaling is a ubiquitous feature…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-09-24 Jiang Zhang , Lingfei Wu

The topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, resulting in the discovery of many universal properties and reoccurring characteristics of different kinds of networks. However, much less is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

The topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, resulting in the discovery of many universal properties and reoccurring characteristics of different kinds of networks. However, much less is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

Walking and cycling, commonly referred to as active travel, have become integral components of modern transport planning. Recently, there has been growing recognition of the substantial role that active travel can play in making cities more…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-06 Ivann Schlosser , Valentina Marín Maureira , Richard Milton , Elsa Arcaute , Michael Batty