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The interaction of all mobile species with their environment hinges on their movement patterns: the places they visit and how frequently they go there. In human society, where the prevalent form of cohabitation is in cities, the highly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-17 Markus Schläpfer , Michael Szell , Hadrien Salat , Carlo Ratti , Geoffrey B. West

Extensive Monte Carlo data analysis gives clear evidence that collapsed linear polymers in two dimensions fall in the universality class of athermal, dense self-avoiding walks, as conjectured by B.Duplantier [Phys.Rev.Lett. 71, 4274…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Baiesi , Enzo Orlandini , Attilio L. Stella

Our community has a deep and sophisticated understanding of phase transitions and their universal scaling functions. We outline and advocate an ambitious program to use this understanding as an anchor for describing the surrounding phases.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-24 James P. Sethna , David Hathcock , Jaron Kent-Dobias , Archishman Raju

Scaling behavior is studied of several dominant eigenvalues of spectra of Markov matrices and the associated correlation times governing critical slowing down in models in the universality class of the two-dimensional Ising model. A scheme…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 M. P. Nightingale , H. W. J. Bloete

Scaling laws arise and are eulogized across disciplines from natural to social sciences for providing pithy, quantitative, `scale-free', and `universal' power law relationships between two variables. On a log-log plot, the power laws…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-04 Marc-Antoine Fardin , Mathieu Hautefeuille , Vivek Sharma

We analyze numerically three different models exhibiting an absorbing phase transition. We focus on the finite-size scaling as well as the dynamical scaling behavior. An accurate determination of several critical exponents allows to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Lubeck , P. C. Heger

Uncovering the mechanism behind the scaling law in human trajectories is of fundamental significance in understanding many spatio-temporal phenomena. In combination of the exploration and the preferential returns, we propose a simple…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-24 Xiao-Pu Han , Xiang-Wen Wang , Xiao-Yong Yan , Bing-Hong Wang

Recent work has introduced the concept of finite-time scaling to characterize bifurcation diagrams at finite times in deterministic discrete dynamical systems, drawing an analogy with finite-size scaling used to study critical behavior in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-31 Daniel A. Martin , Qian-Yuan Tang , Dante R. Chialvo

Analyses of urban scaling laws assume that observations in different cities are independent of the existence of nearby cities. Here we introduce generative models and data-analysis methods that overcome this limitation by modelling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-21 Eduardo G. Altmann

Experimental observations and computer simulations have recently revealed universal aspects of polymer solution behaviour that were previously unknown. This progress has been made possible due to developments in experimental methodologies…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-03 J. Ravi Prakash

The crossing probability in the time direction is defined for an off-equilibrium reaction-diffusion system as the probability that the system of size L is still active at time t, in the finite-size scaling limit. Exact results are obtained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Turban

We discover unified scaling laws for the mean wall shear stress and the mean velocity profile in turbulent boundary layers subject to favorable and adverse mean pressure gradients-including flows with separation and reattachment. We use the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Gonzalo Arranz , Adrian Lozano-Duran

We consider several one-species population dynamics model with finite and infinite carrying capacity, time dependent growth and effort rates and solve them analytically. We show that defining suitable scaling functions for a given time, one…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-11-14 Alexandre Souto Martinez , Brenno Caetano Trocca Cabella , Fabiano Ribeiro

A global picture of a random particle movement is given by the convex hull of the visited points. We obtained numerically the probability distributions of the volume and surface of the convex hulls of a selection of three types of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-04 Hendrik Schawe , Alexander K. Hartmann , Satya N. Majumdar

We investigate finite size scaling in percolating widthless stick systems with variable aspect ratios in an extensive Monte Carlo simulation study. A generalized scaling function is introduced to describe the scaling behavior of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-03 Milan Žeželj , Igor Stanković , Aleksandar Belić

We present generic scaling laws relating spreading critical exponents and avalanche exponents (in the sense of self-organized criticality) in general systems with absorbing states. Using these scaling laws we present a collection of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Miguel A. Munoz , Ronald Dickman , Alessandro Vespignani , Stefano Zapperi

The problem of the interplay between normal and anomalous scaling in turbulent systems stirred by a random forcing with a power law spectrum is addressed. We consider both linear and nonlinear systems. As for the linear case, we study…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Biferale , M. Cencini , A. S. Lanotte , M. Sbragaglia , F. Toschi

We consider quadrangulations with a boundary and derive explicit expressions for the generating functions of these maps with either a marked vertex at a prescribed distance from the boundary, or two boundary vertices at a prescribed mutual…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-03 J. Bouttier , E. Guitter

A theory concerning the emergence and control of chaotic escape from a potential well by means of autoresonant excitations is presented in the context of generic, dissipative, and multistable systems. Universal scaling laws relating both…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ricardo Chacon

Since quantum spatial searches on complex networks have a strong network dependence, the question arises whether the universal perspective exists in this quantum algorithm for complex networks. Here, we uncover the universal scaling laws of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Rei Sato , Tetsuro Nikuni , Kayoko Nohara , Giorgio Salani , Shohei Watabe