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A network as a substrate for dynamic processes may have its own dynamics. We propose a model for networks which evolve together with diffusing particles through a coupled dynamics, and investigate emerging structural property. The model…

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We propose a physical model for developmental process at cellular level to discuss the mechanism of epigenetic landscape. In our simplified model, a minimal model, the network of the interaction among cells generates the landscape…

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We calculate the statistical properties of the energy landscape of a minimal model for strong network-forming liquids. Dynamics and thermodynamic properties of this model can be computed with arbitrary precision even at low temperatures. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. J. Moreno , S. V. Buldyrev , E. La Nave , I. Saika-Voivod , F. Sciortino , P. Tartaglia , E. Zaccarelli

Agent-based stochastic models for finite populations have recently received much attention in the game theory of evolutionary dynamics. Both the ultimate fixation and the pre-fixation transient behavior are important to a full understanding…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-17 Da Zhou , Hong Qian

Landscape paradigm is ubiquitous in physics and other natural sciences, but it has to be supplemented with both quantitative and qualitatively meaningful tools for analyzing the topography of a given landscape. We here consider dynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean-Pierre Aubin , Annick Lesne

Suppose that under the action of gravity, liquid drains through the unit $d$-cube via a minimal-length network of channels constrained to pass through random sites and to flow with nonnegative component in one of the canonical orthogonal…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-09-01 Mathew D. Penrose , Andrew R. Wade

We study the evolution of networks when the creation and decay of links are based on the position of nodes in the network measured by their centrality. We show that the same network dynamics arises under various centrality measures, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-29 Michael D. Koenig , Claudio J. Tessone

In this paper, we consider the capillarity-driven evolution of a solid toroidal island on a flat rigid substrate, where mass transport is controlled by surface diffusion. This problem is representative of the geometrical complexity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-08 Wei Jiang , Quan Zhao , Tiezheng Qian , David J Srolovitz , Weizhu Bao

Soil creeps imperceptibly downhill, but also fails catastrophically to create landslides. Despite the importance of these processes as hazards and in sculpting landscapes, there is no agreed upon model that captures the full range of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-25 Behrooz Ferdowsi , Carlos P. Ortiz , Douglas J. Jerolmack

Banded patterns consisting of alternating bare soil and dense vegetation have been observed in water-limited ecosystems across the globe, often appearing along gently sloped terrain with the stripes aligned transverse to the elevation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-06-16 Punit Gandhi , Lucien Werner , Sarah Iams , Karna Gowda , Mary Silber

Learning rules -- prescriptions for updating model parameters to improve performance -- are typically assumed rather than derived. Why do some learning rules work better than others, and under what assumptions can a given rule be considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 John J. Vastola , Samuel J. Gershman , Kanaka Rajan

The loss surface of deep neural networks has recently attracted interest in the optimization and machine learning communities as a prime example of high-dimensional non-convex problem. Some insights were recently gained using spin glass…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-05 C. Daniel Freeman , Joan Bruna

We present an algorithm that is well suited to find the linear layout of the multiple flow-direction network (directed acyclic graph) for an efficient implicit computation of the erosion term in landscape evolution models. The time…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-07-08 Shashank Kumar Anand , Milad Hooshyar , Amilcare Porporato

We show how dynamical equations for liquid films and drops on uneven surfaces, including contact line dynamics and evaporation/condensation effects, may be formulated as a variational dynamics, generated via Onsager's variational principle.…

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We explore connections between surficial deltaic processes (e.g. avulsion, deposition) and the stratigraphic record using a simple numerical model of delta-plain evolution, with the aim of constraining these connections and thus improving…

Mound formation on flat and miscut crystal surfaces exhibits distinct growth behaviors. While mound structures are the predominant feature on flat surfaces, miscut surfaces display a smooth transition from meandered patterns to…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-17 Marta A. Chabowska , Hristina Popova , Magdalena A. Załuska-Kotur

The logarithmic mean-velocity profile is a key experimental and theoretical result in wall-bounded turbulence. Similarly, here we show that the topographic surface emerging between parallel zero-elevation boundaries presents an intermediate…

Biological transport networks are highly optimized structures that ensure power-efficient distribution of fluids across various domains, including animal vasculature and plant venation. Theoretically, these networks can be described as…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Albert Alonso , Lars Erik J. Skjegstad , Julius B. Kirkegaard

Scale-free and non-computable characteristics of natural networks are found to result from the least-time dispersal of energy. To consider a network as a thermodynamic system is motivated since ultimately everything that exists can be…

General Physics · Physics 2011-06-22 Tuomo Hartonen , Arto Annila

Precipitation is one of the most important meteorological variables for defining the climate dynamics, but the spatial patterns of precipitation have not been fully investigated yet. The complex network theory, which provides a robust tool…

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