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Braess \cite{1} has been studied about a traffic flow on a diamond type network and found that introducing new edges to the networks always does not achieve the efficiency. Some researchers studied the Braess' paradox in similar type…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-09 Norihito Toyota

Distributing entangled pairs among multiple users is a fundamental problem in quantum networks. Existing protocols like $X$ protocol introduced in (npj Quantum Information 5, 76 (2019)) use graph theoretic tools like local complementation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Vaisakh Mannalath , Anirban Pathak

Long-range entanglement distribution in a quantum network relies on entanglement swapping at intermediate nodes along a network path to connect short-range entangled states established over the network edges. The end-to-end entanglement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Md Sohel Mondal , Aniket Zambare , Siddhartha Santra

Quantum networks are essential to quantum information distributed applications, and communicating over them is a key challenge. Complex networks have rich and intriguing properties, which are as yet unexplored in the quantum setting. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-15 M. Cuquet , J. Calsamiglia

We investigate the influence that adding a new coupling has on the linear stability of the synchronous state in coupled oscillators networks. Using a simple model we show that, depending on its location, the new coupling can lead to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-04-06 Tommaso Coletta , Philippe Jacquod

Quantum networks have experienced rapid advancements in both theoretical and experimental domains over the last decade, making it increasingly important to understand their large-scale features from the viewpoint of statistical physics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Xiangyi Meng , Xinqi Hu , Yu Tian , Gaogao Dong , Renaud Lambiotte , Jianxi Gao , Shlomo Havlin

Recent research on the network modeling of complex systems has led to a convenient representation of numerous natural, social, and engineered systems that are now recognized as networks of interacting parts. Such systems can exhibit a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-11-12 Adilson E. Motter , Marc Timme

We study the properties of Braess's paradox in the context of the model of congestion games with flow over time introduced by Koch and Skutella. We compare them to the well known properties of Braess's paradox for Wardrop's model of games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Martin Macko , Kate Larson , Ľuboš Steskal

The recognition that large classes of quantum many-body systems have limited entanglement in the ground and low-lying excited states led to dramatic advances in their numerical simulation via so-called tensor networks. However, global…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-02 Marek M. Rams , Michael Zwolak

We consider entanglement swapping, a key component of quantum network operations and entanglement distribution. Pure entangled states, which are the desired input to the swapping protocol, are typically mixed by environmental interactions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Brian T. Kirby , Siddhartha Santra , Vladimir S. Malinovsky , Michael Brodsky

Quantum networks are composed of nodes which can send and receive quantum states by exchanging photons. Their goal is to facilitate quantum communication between any nodes, something which can be used to send secret messages in a secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Antonio Acin , J. Ignacio Cirac , Maciej Lewenstein

We show the existence of the Braess paradox for a traffic network with nonlinear dynamics described by the Lighthill-Whitham-Richards model for traffic flow. Furthermore, we show how one can employ control theory to avoid the paradox. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Rinaldo M. Colombo , Helge Holden

Entanglement is a fundamental resource for many applications in quantum information processing. Here, we investigate how quantum transport in simple quantum graphs, modeled as controlled two-level quantum systems, can be utilized to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Alison A. Silva , D. Bazeia , Fabiano M. Andrade

To systematically study the implications of additional information about routes provided to certain users (e.g., via GPS-based route guidance systems), we introduce a new class of congestion games in which users have differing information…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Daron Acemoglu , Ali Makhdoumi , Azarakhsh Malekian , Asuman Ozdaglar

This paper deals with the Braess paradox in quantum transport. The scattering matrix formalism is used to consider a two-parameter family of mesoscopic conductors with the topology of the classical Braess transport network. The study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 A. D. Lobanov , A. D. Lobanova , A. M. Pupasov-Maksimov

Distributed quantum networks are not merely information conduits but intricate systems that embody the principles of quantum mechanics. In our study, we examine the underlying mechanisms of quantum connectivity within a distributed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Mst Shapna Akter , Md. Shazzad Hossain Shaon , Tasmin Karim , Md. Fahim Sultan , Emran Kanaan

The conventional view of the congestion control problem in data networks is based on the principle that a flow's performance is uniquely determined by the state of its bottleneck link, regardless of the topological properties of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Jordi Ros-Giralt , Noah Amsel , Sruthi Yellamraju , James Ezick , Richard Lethin , Yuang Jiang , Aosong Feng , Leandros Tassiulas

We study entanglement distribution in quantum complex networks where nodes are connected by bipartite entangled states. These networks are characterized by a complex structure, which dramatically affects how information is transmitted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-18 Martí Cuquet , John Calsamiglia

Quantum networks are important for quantum communication, enabling tasks such as quantum teleportation, quantum key distribution, quantum sensing, and quantum error correction, often utilizing graph states, a specific class of multipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Aniruddha Sen , Kenneth Goodenough , Don Towsley

Braess's paradox -- where adding network capacity increases travel time -- is typically attributed to selfish agents. Although eusocial colonies maximize collective fitness, we find experimentally that \emph{Diacamma indicum} ants exhibit…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Joy Das Bairagya , Udipta Chakraborti , Sumana Annagiri , Sagar Chakraborty