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Machine learning models can assist with metamaterials design by approximating computationally expensive simulators or solving inverse design problems. However, past work has usually relied on black box deep neural networks, whose reasoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zhi Chen , Alexander Ogren , Chiara Daraio , L. Catherine Brinson , Cynthia Rudin

Metric networks are network-shaped, one-dimensional structures on which one can solve differential equations to simulate a wide range of physical systems including conjugated molecules, photonic crystals, quantum mechanics in waveguide…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-27 Charles Emmett Maher , Jeremy L. Marzuola , Katherine A. Newhall

Disordered many-particle hyperuniform systems are exotic amorphous states of matter that lie between crystals and liquids. Hyperuniform systems have attracted recent attention because they are endowed with novel transport and optical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-23 Zheng Ma , Salvatore Torquato

Disordered hyperuniformity is a description of hidden correlations in point distributions revealed by an anomalous suppression in fluctuations of local density at various coarse-graining length scales. In the absorbing phase of models…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-24 Yuanjian Zheng , Anshul D. S. Parmar , Massimo Pica Ciamarra

We introduce the concept of a hyperuniformity disorder length that controls the variance of volume fraction fluctuations for randomly placed windows of fixed size. In particular, fluctuations are determined by the average number of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-18 A. T. Chieco , R. Dreyfus , D. J. Durian

Structural cellular materials in nature, such as wood, trabecular bone, corals, and dentin combine complex biological functions with structural roles, such as skeletal support and impact protection1,2. They feature complex structural…

Hyperuniform materials, characterized by anomalously suppressed long-wavelength density fluctuations, exhibit unique optical and photonic properties distinct from both crystalline and random media. While most prior studies have focused on…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-09 David Keeney , Wenlong Shi , Rohit Thomas , Yang Jiao

Disordered hyperuniform materials are very promising for applications but the successful route for synthesizing them requires to understand the interactions induced by the host media that can switch off this hidden order. With this aim we…

Disordered hyperuniform (DHU) states are recently discovered exotic states of condensed matter. DHU systems are similar to liquids or glasses in that they are statistically isotropic and lack conventional long-range translational and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-06 Duyu Chen , Houlong Zhuang , Mohan Chen , Pinshane Huang , Vojtech Vlcek , Yang Jiao

We study the propagation of waves in a set of absorbing subwavelength scatterers positioned on a stealth hyperuniform point pattern. We show that spatial correlations in the disorder substantially enhance absorption compared to a fully…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Florian Bigourdan , Romain Pierrat , Rémi Carminati

Disordered stealthy hyperuniform (SHU) two-phase media are a special subset of hyperuniform structures with novel physical properties due to their hybrid crystal-liquid nature. We have previously shown that the strong-contrast expansion of…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-14 Jaeuk Kim , Salvatore Torquato

Recent theoretical work suggests that systematic pruning of disordered networks consisting of nodes connected by springs can lead to materials that exhibit a host of unusual mechanical properties. In particular, global properties such as…

Hyperuniform particle arrangements are characterized by a local number variance that grows more slowly than the volume of the observation window. We generalize this concept to describe particle systems in which particles carry weights:…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-04 Salvatore Torquato , Jaeuk Kim , Michael A. Klatt , Roberto Car , Paul J. Steinhardt

We investigate the role of disorder on the fracturing process of heterogeneous materials by means of a two-dimensional fuse network model. Our results in the extreme disorder limit reveal that the backbone of the fracture at collapse,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-01 A. A. Moreira , C. L. N. Oliveira , A. Hansen , N. A. M. Araujo , H. J. Herrmann , J. S. Andrade

Originating from condensed matter physics, tensor networks are compact representations of high-dimensional tensors. In this paper, the prowess of tensor networks is demonstrated on the particular task of one-class anomaly detection. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Jinhui Wang , Chase Roberts , Guifre Vidal , Stefan Leichenauer

We study composite assemblages of dielectrics and metamaterials with respectively positive and negative material parameters. In the continuum case, for a scalar equation, such media may exhibit so-called plasmonic resonances for certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Kaïs Ammari , Eric Bonnetier , Alessandro Duca

The spatial cosmic matter distribution on scales of a few up to more than a hundred Megaparsec displays a salient and pervasive foamlike pattern. Voronoi tessellations are a versatile and flexible mathematical model for such weblike spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-20 Rien van de Weygaert

The lecture notes describe the Delaunay Tessellation Field Estimator for Cosmic Web analysis. The high sensitivity of Voronoi/Delaunay tessellations to the local point distribution is used to obtain estimates of density and related…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Rien van de Weygaert , Willem Schaap

Complex network theory has been used to study complex systems. However, many real-life systems involve multiple kinds of objects . They can't be described by simple graphs. In order to provide complete information of these systems, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-10 Jin-Li Guo , Xin-Yun Zhu

The phenomenon of distinct behaviors exhibited by neural networks under varying scales of initialization remains an enigma in deep learning research. In this paper, based on the earlier work by Luo et al.~\cite{luo2021phase}, we present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zhengan Chen , Yuqing Li , Tao Luo , Zhangchen Zhou , Zhi-Qin John Xu