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cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 126 cited

Intra-molecular coupling as a mechanism for a liquid-liquid phase transition

Giancarlo Franzese, Manuel I. Marques, H. Eugene Stanley

We study a model for water with a tunable intra-molecular interaction , using mean field theory and off-lattice Monte Carlo simulations. For all , the model display…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 191 cited

Dynamics of Sleep-Wake Transitions During Sleep

Chung-Chuan Lo, Luis A. Nunes Amaral, Shlomo Havlin +4

We study the dynamics of the awakening during the night for healthy subjects and find that the wake and the sleep periods exhibit completely different behavior: the durations of wa…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 115 cited

Heterogeneous aging in spin glasses

Horacio E. Castillo, Claudio Chamon, Leticia F. Cugliandolo +1

We introduce a set of theoretical ideas that form the basis for an analytical framework capable of describing nonequilibrium dynamics in glassy systems. We test the resulting scena…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 47 cited

Nontrivial Velocity Distributions in Inelastic Gases

P. L. Krapivsky, E. Ben-Naim

We study freely evolving and forced inelastic gases using the Boltzmann equation. We consider uniform collision rates and obtain analytical results valid for arbitrary spatial dime…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 127 cited

Correlation Differences in Heartbeat Fluctuations During Rest and Exercise

Roman Karasik, Nir Sapir, Yosef Ashkenazy +4

We study the heartbeat activity of healthy individuals at rest and during exercise. We focus on correlation properties of the intervals formed by successive peaks in the pulse wave…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 75 cited

Extreme Value Statistics and Traveling Fronts: An Application to Computer Science

Satya N. Majumdar, P. L. Krapivsky

We study the statistics of height and balanced height in the binary search tree problem in computer science. The search tree problem is first mapped to a fragmentation problem whic…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 32 cited

The Potential Energy Landscape and Mechanisms of Diffusion in Liquids

T. Keyes, J. Chowdhary

The mechanism of diffusion in supercooled liquids is investigated from the potential energy landscape point of view, with emphasis on the crossover from high- to low-T dynamics. Mo…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 28 cited

Stable Distributions in Stochastic Fragmentation

P. L. Krapivsky, E. Ben-Naim, I. Grosse

We investigate a class of stochastic fragmentation processes involving stable and unstable fragments. We solve analytically for the fragment length density and find that a generic…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 946 cited

A Random Matrix Approach to Cross-Correlations in Financial Data

V. Plerou, P. Gopikrishnan, B. Rosenow +3

We analyze cross-correlations between price fluctuations of different stocks using methods of random matrix theory (RMT). Using two large databases, we calculate cross-correlation…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001

Scaling in the growth of geographically subdivided populations: invariant patterns from a continent-wide biological survey

Timothy H. Keitt, Luis A. N. Amaral, Sergey V. Buldyrev +1

We consider statistical patterns of variation in growth rates for over 400 species of breeding birds across North America surveyed from 1966 to 1998. We report two results. First,…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 236 cited

Quantifying Stock Price Response to Demand Fluctuations

Vasiliki Plerou, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, Xavier Gabaix +1

We address the question of how stock prices respond to changes in demand. We quantify the relations between price change over a time interval and two different measures of…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 258 cited

Behavioral-Independent Features of Complex Heartbeat Dynamics

Luis A. Nunes Amaral, Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Naoko Aoyagi +5

We test whether the complexity of cardiac interbeat interval time series is simply a consequence of the wide range of scales characterizing human behavior, especially physical acti…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 1.3k cited

The Web of Human Sexual Contacts

Fredrik Liljeros, Christofer R. Edling, Luis A. Nunes Amaral +2

Many ``real-world'' networks are clearly defined while most ``social'' networks are to some extent subjective. Indeed, the accuracy of empirically-determined social networks is a q…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 25 cited

Random Fibonacci Sequences

Clément Sire, Paul L. Krapivsky

Solutions to the random Fibonacci recurrence x_{n+1}=x_{n} + or - Bx_{n-1} decrease (increase) exponentially, x_{n} = exp(lambda n), for sufficiently small (large) B. In the limits…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 4 cited

Dissolution in a field

W. Hwang, S. Redner

We study the dissolution of a solid by continuous injection of reactive ``acid'' particles at a single point, with the reactive particles undergoing biased diffusion in the dissolv…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 48 cited

Extremal properties of random trees

E. Ben-Naim, P. L. Krapivsky, Satya N. Majumdar

We investigate extremal statistical properties such as the maximal and the minimal heights of randomly generated binary trees. By analyzing the master evolution equations we show t…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 133 cited

Freezing in Ising Ferromagnets

V. Spirin, P. L. Krapivsky, S. Redner

We investigate the final state of zero-temperature Ising ferromagnets which are endowed with single-spin flip Glauber dynamics. Surprisingly, the ground state is generally not reac…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 171 cited

A Stochastic Model of Human Gait Dynamics

Yosef Ashkenazy, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff, Plamen Ch. Ivanov +2

We present a stochastic model of gait rhythm dynamics, based on transitions between different ``neural centers'', that reproduces distinctive statistical properties of normal human…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 4 cited

Criticality in confined ionic fluids

J. E. Flores-Mena, Marcia C. Barbosa, Yan Levin

A theory of a confined two dimensional electrolyte is presented. The positive and negative ions, interacting by a potential, are constrained to move on an interface separatin…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 15 cited

Decomposition of Heartbeat Time Series: Scaling Analysis of the Sign Sequence

Y. Ashkenazy, P. Ch. Ivanov, S. Havlin +4

The cardiac interbeat (RR) increment time series can be decomposed into two sub-sequences: a magnitude series and a sign series. We show that the sign sequence, a simple binary rep…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 19 cited

Spin wave specific heat in quasiperiodic Fibonacci structures

C. G. Bezerra, E. L. Albuquerque, A. M. Mariz +2

The energy spectra of a variety of collective modes on quasiperiodic structures exhibit a complex fractal profile. Among the modes that have attracted particular attention in this…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 415 cited

Generic mechanism for generating a liquid-liquid phase transition

Giancarlo Franzese, Gianpietro Malescio, Anna Skibinsky +2

Recent experimental results indicate that phosphorus, a single-component system, can have two liquid phases: a high-density liquid (HDL) and a low-density liquid (LDL) phase. A fir…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 49 cited

Nonlinear Network Dynamics on Earthquake Fault Systems

Paul B. Rundle, John B. Rundle, Kristy F. Tiampo +3

Earthquake faults occur in networks that have dynamical modes not displayed by single isolated faults. Using simulations of the network of strike-slip faults in southern California…

cond-mat.stat-mech2001★ 60 cited

Percolation Threshold, Fisher Exponent, and Shortest Path Exponent for 4 and 5 Dimensions

Gerald Paul, Robert M. Ziff, H. Eugene Stanley

We develop a method of constructing percolation clusters that allows us to build very large clusters using very little computer memory by limiting the maximum number of sites for w…