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In complex systems, the interplay between network structure and noise often leads to emergent phenomena. This study explores the effects of uneven coupling and asymmetric noise on the dynamics of feed-forward loop (FFL) motifs, essential…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Gurpreet Jagdev , Na Yu

Synchronization is an important behavior that characterizes many natural and human made systems composed by several interacting units. It can be found in a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from neuroscience to power-grids, to mention…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-10-22 Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti , James P. Gleeson , Malbor Asllani

Synchronization processes play critical roles in the functionality of a wide range of both natural and man-made systems. Recent work in physics and neuroscience highlights the importance of higher-order interactions between dynamical units,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-08-03 Per Sebastian Skardal , Alex Arenas

The interactions between the components of many real-world systems are best modelled by networks with multiple layers. Different theories have been proposed to explain how multilayered connections affect the linear stability of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-25 Charo I. del Genio , Sergio Faci-Lázaro , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Stefano Boccaletti

In this Letter we propose a method to control a set of arbitrary nodes in a directed network such that they follow a synchronous trajectory which is, in general, not shared by the other units of the network. The problem is inspired to those…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-19 Bruno Ursino , Lucia Valentina Gambuzza , Vito Latora , Mattia Frasca

Many networks in nature and applications have an approximate low-rank structure in the sense that their connectivity structure is dominated by a few dimensions. It is natural to expect that dynamics on such networks would also be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Yue Wan , Robert Rosenbaum

Many real-world complex networks contain a significant amount of structural redundancy, in which multiple vertices play identical topological roles. Such redundancy arises naturally from the simple growth processes which form and shape many…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-05 Ben D. MacArthur , Rubén J. Sánchez-García

Networks incorporating higher-order interactions are increasingly recognized for their ability to introduce novel dynamics into various processes, including synchronization. Previous studies on synchronization within multilayer networks…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-07-16 Palash Kumar Pal , Md Sayeed Anwar , Matjaz Perc , Dibakar Ghosh

We propose a simple adaptive-network model describing recent swarming experiments. Exploiting an analogy with human decision making, we capture the dynamics of the model by a low-dimensional system of equations permitting analytical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-07-15 Cristián Huepe , Gerd Zschaler , Anne-Ly Do , Thilo Gross

Self-organization in natural and engineered systems causes the emergence of ordered spatio-temporal motifs. In presence of diffusive species, Turing theory has been widely used to understand the formation of such patterns on continuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-22 Marie Dorchain , Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti

Characterizing the in uence of network properties on the global emerging behavior of interacting elements constitutes a central question in many areas, from physical to social sciences. In this article we study a primary model of disordered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-10-08 Luis Carlos Garcidel Molino , Khashayar Pakdaman , Jonathan Touboul , Gilles Wainrib

We consider the dynamics of a reaction-diffusion system on a multigraph. The species share the same set of nodes but can access different links to explore the embedding spatial support. By acting on the topology of the networks we can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Malbor Asllani , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli

We show that, in discrete models of quantum gravity, emergent geometric space can be viewed as the entanglement pattern in a mixed quantum state of the "universe", characterized by a universal topological network entanglement. As a concrete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 M. C. Diamantini , C. A. Trugenberger

Dispersal networks critically shape the fate of ecological communities, yet the mechanisms linking connectivity and persistence remain poorly understood. We show that an interplay between asymmetric dispersal and asynchronous dynamics…

The advances in understanding complex networks have generated increasing interest in dynamical processes occurring on them. Pattern formation in activator-inhibitor systems has been studied in networks, revealing differences from the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-09 Nikos E. Kouvaris , Shigefumi Hata , Albert Díaz-Guilera

Networks are universally considered as complex structures of interactions of large multi-component systems. In order to determine the role that each node has inside a complex network, several centrality measures have been developed. Such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-20 Malbor Asllani , Bruno Requiao da Cunha , Ernesto Estrada , James P. Gleeson

In this paper we investigate networks whose evolution is governed by the interaction of a random assembly process and an optimization process. In the first process, new nodes are added one at a time and form connections to randomly selected…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-05-16 Markus Brede

We investigate the role of the degree of symmetry of the diversity distribution in shaping the collective dynamics of networks of coupled excitable units modeled by FitzHugh-Nagumo equations. While previous studies have focused primarily on…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-11-12 Stefano Scialla , Marco Patriarca , Els Heinsalu , Marius E. Yamakou , Julyan H. E. Cartwright

What is the underlying mechanism leading to power-law degree distributions of many natural and artificial networks is still at issue. We consider that scale-free networks emerges from self-organizing process, and such a evolving model is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gang Yan , Tao Zhou , Ying-Di Jin , Zhong-Qian Fu

We introduce a framework to intertwine dynamical processes of different nature, each with its own distinct network topology, using a multilayer network approach. As an example of collective phenomena emerging from the interactions of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-04-05 Vincenzo Nicosia , Per Sebastian Skardal , Alex Arenas , Vito Latora