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Stressed soft materials commonly present viscoelastic signatures in the form of power-law or exponential decay. Understanding the origins of such rheologic behaviors is crucial to find proper technological applications. Using an elastic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-14 A. E. O. Ferreira , J. L. B. de Araújo , W. P. Ferreira , J. S. de Sousa , C. L. N. Oliveira

Power laws arise in a variety of phenomena ranging from matter undergoing phase transition to the distribution of word frequencies in the English language. Usually, their presence is only apparent when data is abundant, and accurately…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-20 Iván A. Davidovich , Yasser Roudi

The ubiquity of power-law relations in empirical data displays physicists' love of simple laws and uncovering common causes among seemingly unrelated phenomena. However, many reported power laws lack statistical support and mechanistic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-21 Sun-Ting Tsai , Chin-De Chang , Ching-Hao Chang , Meng-Xue Tsai , Nan-Jung Hsu , Tzay-Ming Hong

Large language models with a huge number of parameters, when trained on near internet-sized number of tokens, have been empirically shown to obey neural scaling laws: specifically, their performance behaves predictably as a power law in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Alexander Maloney , Daniel A. Roberts , James Sully

Critical states are sometimes identified experimentally through power-law statistics or universal scaling functions. We show here that such features naturally emerge from networks in self-sustained irregular regimes away from criticality.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-08 Jonathan Touboul , Alain Destexhe

A financial market is a system resulting from the complex interaction between participants in a closed economy. We propose a minimal microscopic model of the financial market economy based on the real economy's symmetry constraint and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-06-15 Liu Ziyin , Katsuya Ito , Kentaro Imajo , Kentaro Minami

Natural language data follows a power-law distribution, with most knowledge and skills appearing at very low frequency. While a common intuition suggests that reweighting or curating data towards a uniform distribution may help models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zixuan Wang , Xingyu Dang , Jason D. Lee , Kaifeng Lyu

We consider a recently introduced generalization of the Ising model in which individual spin strength can vary. The model is intended for analysis of ordering in systems comprising agents which, although matching in their binarity (i.e.,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-28 Mariana Krasnytska , Bertrand Berche , Yurij Holovatch , Ralph Kenna

We study a few dynamical systems composed of many components whose sizes evolve according to multiplicative stochastic rules. We compare them with respect to the emergence of power laws in the size distribution of their components. We show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aharon Blank , Sorin Solomon

We study spectral densities for systems on lattices, which, at a phase transition display, power-law spatial correlations. Constructing the spatial correlation matrix we prove that its eigenvalue density shows a power law that can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-24 Vinayak , T. Prosen , B. Buca , T. H. Seligman

Scaling laws arise and are eulogized across disciplines from natural to social sciences for providing pithy, quantitative, `scale-free', and `universal' power law relationships between two variables. On a log-log plot, the power laws…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-04 Marc-Antoine Fardin , Mathieu Hautefeuille , Vivek Sharma

Scale invariance is a central organizing principle in physics, underlying phenomena that range from critical behaviour in statistical mechanics to transport and chaos in nonlinear dynamical systems. Here we present a unified and physically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-23 Edson D. Leonel , Diego F. M. Oliveira

Scaling laws illuminate Nature's fundamental biological principles and guide bioinspired materials and structural designs. In simple cases they are based on the fundamental principle that all laws of nature remain unchanged (i.e.,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Huan Liu , Shashank Priya , Richard D. James

Power law distributions have been found in many natural and social phenomena, and more recently in the source code and run-time characteristics of Object-Oriented (OO) systems. A power law implies that small values are extremely common,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Richard Wheeldon , Steve Counsell

Spectra in astroparticle physics are commonly approximated by simple power laws. The steeply falling nature of these power laws, however, makes the detection of additional components rather challenging. This holds true especially, if the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-22 Tim Ruhe , Wolfgang Rhode

The concept of power can be explored at several scales: from physical action and process effectuation, all the way to complex social dynamics. A spectrum-wide analysis of power requires attention to the fundamental principles that constrain…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-06 Mahault Albarracin , Sonia de Jager , David Hyland , Sarah Grace Manski

Over the last decades, impressive progresses have been made in many experimental domains, e.g. microscopic techniques such as single-particle tracking, leading to plethoric amounts of data. In a large variety of systems, from natural to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-03 Xavier Durang , Hyerim Ahn , Jae Youn Shim , Hye Yoon Park , Jae-Hyung Jeon

We study the dynamics of an intriguing crossover from a chaotic to a power law state as a function of strain rate within the context of a recently introduced model which reproduces the crossover. While the chaotic regime has a small set of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 M. S. Bharathi , G. Ananthakrishna

Mixing laws have been introduced in effective medium physics to calculate a bulk parameter of mixtures of several phases as a function of the parameter values and volume fractions for each phase. They have been successfully applied to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 Bernard Montaron

Cities are often compared through scaling laws, usually expressed as power-law relations between population size and aggregate urban quantities related to infrastructure, socioeconomic activity, or environmental impacts. These laws are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-19 Ulysse Marquis , Marc Barthelemy