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In this work we analyze the universal scaling functions and the critical exponents at the upper critical dimension of a continuous phase transition. The consideration of the universal scaling behavior yields a decisive check of the value of…

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Reliable functioning of infrastructure networks is essential for our modern society. Cascading failures are the cause of most large-scale network outages. Although cascading failures often exhibit dynamical transients, the modeling of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-08-18 Benjamin Schäfer , Dirk Witthaut , Marc Timme , Vito Latora

The characterization of the "most connected" nodes in static or slowly evolving complex networks has helped in understanding and predicting the behavior of social, biological, and technological networked systems, including their robustness…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-10-21 Scott A. Hill , Dan Braha

We study a minimal model of traffic flows in complex networks, simple enough to get analytical results, but with a very rich phenomenology, presenting continuous, discontinuous as well as hybrid phase transitions between a free-flow phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daniele De Martino , Luca Dall'Asta , Ginestra Bianconi , Matteo Marsili

The observation of critical-like behavior in cortical networks represents a major step forward in elucidating how the brain manages information. Understanding the origin and functionality of critical-like dynamics, as well as their…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-22 Paula Villa Martín , Paolo Moretti , Miguel A. Muñoz

There exist some boundary-driven open systems with diffusive dynamics whose particle current fluctuations exhibit universal features that belong to the Edwards-Wilkinson universality class. We achieve this result by establishing a mapping,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-29 Alberto Imparato , Vivien Lecomte , Frédéric Van Wijland

Many complex systems can be described in terms of networks of interacting units. Recent studies have shown that a wide class of both natural and artificial nets display a surprisingly widespread feature: the presence of highly heterogeneous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Ferrer i Cancho , R. V. Sole

Dynamical phase transitions are defined through non-analyticities of the survival probability of an out-of-equilibrium time-evolving state at certain critical times. They ensue from zeros of the corresponding survival amplitude. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-17 Ángel L. Corps , Pavel Stránský , Pavel Cejnar

Time-discrete dynamical systems on a finite state space have been used with great success to model natural and engineered systems such as biological networks, social networks, and engineered control systems. They have the advantage of being…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Alan Veliz-Cuba , Reinhard Laubenbacher

This work concerns a many-body deterministic model that displays life-like properties as emergence, complexity, self-organization, spontaneous compartmentalization, and self-regulation. The model portraits the dynamics of an ensemble of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-07-11 Alessandro Scirè , Valerio Annovazzi-Lodi

Systems that comprise many interacting dynamical networks, such as the human body with its biological networks or the global economic network consisting of regional clusters, often exhibit complicated collective dynamics. To understand the…

Complex networks have become essential tools for understanding diverse phenomena in social systems, traffic systems, biomolecular systems, and financial systems. Identifying critical nodes is a central theme in contemporary research,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Duxin Chen , Jiawen Chen , Xiaoyu Zhang , Qinghan Jia , Xiaolu Liu , Ye Sun , Linyuan Lv , Wenwu Yu

Topological phase transitions can be described by the theory of critical phenomena and identified by critical exponents that define their universality classes. This is a consequence of the existence of a diverging length at the transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 S. Rufo , Nei Lopes , Mucio A. Continentino , Griffith M. A. R

What features characterise complex system dynamics? Power laws and scale invariance of fluctuations are often taken as the hallmarks of complexity, drawing on analogies with equilibrium critical phenomena[1-3]. Here we argue that slow,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Anderson , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen , L. P. Oliveira , Paolo Sibani

We investigate the emergence of universal dynamical scaling in quantum critical spin systems adiabatically driven out of equilibrium, with emphasis on quench dynamics which involves non-isolated critical points (i.e., critical regions) and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shusa Deng , Gerardo Ortiz , Lorenza Viola

The theory of continuous phase transitions predicts the universal collective properties of a physical system near a critical point, which for instance manifest in characteristic power-law behaviours of physical observables. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-24 Matteo Marcuzzi , Emanuele Levi , Weibin Li , Juan P. Garrahan , Beatriz Olmos , Igor Lesanovsky

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

To understand the controllability of complex networks is a forefront problem relevant to different fields of science and engineering. Despite recent advances in network controllability theories, an outstanding issue is to understand the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-01 Zhesi Shen , Wen-Xu Wang , Chen Zhao , Ying-Cheng Lai

While network abrupt breakdowns due to overloads and cascading failures have been studied extensively, the critical exponents and the universality class of such phase transitions have not been discussed. Here, we study breakdowns triggered…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-07 Ignacio A. Perez , Dana Ben Porath , Cristian E. La Rocca , Lidia A. Braunstein , Shlomo Havlin

We present a novel way to characterize the structure of complex networks by studying the statistical properties of the trajectories of random walks over them. We consider time series corresponding to different properties of the nodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-06-17 Vincenzo Nicosia , Manlio De Domenico , Vito Latora