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Scale invariance profoundly influences the dynamics and structure of complex systems, spanning from critical phenomena to network architecture. Here, we propose a precise definition of scale-invariant networks by leveraging the concept of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-17 Anna Poggialini , Pablo Villegas , Miguel A. Muñoz , Andrea Gabrielli

Spontaneous stochasticity refers to the emergence of intrinsic randomness in deterministic systems under singular limits, a phenomenon conjectured to be fundamental in turbulence. Armstrong and Vicol recently constructed a deterministic,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Wandrille Ruffenach , Eric Simonnet , Nicolas Valade

Scale independence is a ubiquitous feature of complex systems which implies a highly skewed distribution of resources with no characteristic scale. Research has long focused on why systems as varied as protein networks, evolution and stock…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-08 Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , Antoine Allard , Jean-Gabriel Young , Louis J. Dubé

If scale invariance is a classical symmetry then both the Planck scale and the weak scale should emerge as quantum effects. We show that this can be realized in simple scale invariant theories with a hidden sector. The weak/Planck scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert Foot , Archil Kobakhidze , Kristian L. McDonald , Raymond R. Volkas

Spontaneous stochasticity refers to the emergence of intrinsic randomness in deterministic systems under singular limits, a phenomenon conjectured to be fundamental in turbulence. Armstrong and Vicol \citep{AV23,AV24} recently constructed a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-23 W. Ruffenach , E. Simonnet , N. Valade

We analyse how simple local constraints in two dimensions lead a defect to exhibit robust, non-transient, and tunable, subdiffusion. We uncover a rich dynamical phenomenology realised in ice- and dimer-type models. On the microscopic scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Nilotpal Chakraborty , Markus Heyl , Roderich Moessner

Topological invariants have proved useful for analyzing emergent function as they characterize a property of the entire system, and are insensitive to local details, disorder, and noise. They support boundary states, which reduce the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Evelyn Tang

Conserved quantities are obtained and analyzed in the new models with global scale invariance recently proposed. Such models allow for non tivial scalar field potentials and masses for particles, so that the scale symmetry must be broken…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 E. I. Guendelman

We examine an infinite, linear system of ordinary differential equations that models the evolution of fragmenting clusters, where each cluster is assumed to be composed of identical units. In contrast to previous investigations into such…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Lyndsay Kerr , Wilson Lamb , Matthias Langer

Model uncertainties and simulation uncertainties occur in mathematical modeling of multiscale complex systems, since some mechanisms or scales are not represented (i.e., "unresolved") due to lack in our understanding of these mechanisms or…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-11-25 Jinqiao Duan

We formulate a scaling theory for the long-time diffusive motion in a space occluded by a high density of moving obstacles in dimensions 1, 2 and 3. Our tracers diffuse anomalously over many decades in time, before reaching a diffusive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-22 H. Bendekgey , G. Huber , D. Yllanes

Topological defects -- locations of local mismatch of order -- are a universal concept playing important roles in diverse systems studied in physics and beyond, including the universe, various condensed matter systems, and recently, even…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-14 Yohei Zushi , Kazumasa A. Takeuchi

The eigenvalue spectra of the transition probability matrix for random walks traversing critically disordered clusters in three different types of percolation problems show that the random walker sees a developing Euclidean signature for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Cuansing , H. Nakanishi

Characteristic scale is a notion that pervades the geophysical sciences, but it has no widely accepted precise definition. The wavelet transform decomposes a time series into coefficients that are associated with different scales. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-07-26 Michael J. Keim , Donald B. Percival

For percolating systems, we propose a universal exponent relation connecting the leading corrections to scaling of the cluster size distribution with the dynamic corrections to the asymptotic transport behaviour at criticality. Our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-08 Axel Kammerer , Felix Höfling , Thomas Franosch

An eigenvalue equation, for linear instability modes involving large scales in a convective hydromagnetic system, is derived in the framework of multiscale analysis. We consider a horizontal layer with electrically conducting boundaries,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Baptista , S. M. A. Gama , V. Zheligovsky

The discrete multiscale analysis for boundary value problems in nonlinear discrete systems leads to a first order discrete modulational instability above a threshold amplitude for wave numbers beyond the zero of group velocity dispersion.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Leon , M. Manna

Dynamical systems of a new kind are described, which are motivated by the problem of constructing diffeomorphism invariant quantum theories. These are based on the extremization of a non-local and non-additive quantity that we call the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Julian Barbour , Lee Smolin

We present a study of the intermittent properties of a shell model of turbulence with unprecedented statistics, about $\sim 10^7$ eddy turn over time, achieved thanks to an implementation on a large-scale parallel GPU factory. This allows…

Emergent behaviors occur in a vast array of systems across many scales, and are of fundamental physical importance because of the intrinsic difficulty in linking microscopic system properties to macroscopic behaviors. Here we study the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-05 N. Khalid Ahmed , Greg van Anders , Elizabeth R. Chen , Sharon C. Glotzer