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Maximum-likelihood fits of piece-wise Pareto distributions with finite and non-zero core
Benjamin F. Maier
We discuss multiple classes of piece-wise Pareto-like power law probability density functions with two regimes, a non-pathological core with non-zero, finite values for supp…
Inferring country-specific import risk of diseases from the world air transportation network
Pascal P. Klamser, Adrian Zachariae, Benjamin F. Maier +4
Disease propagation between countries strongly depends on their effective distance, a measure derived from the world air transportation network (WAN). It reduces the complex spread…
Evidence for positive long- and short-term effects of vaccinations against COVID-19 in wearable sensor metrics -- Insights from the German Corona Data Donation Project
Marc Wiedermann, Annika H. Rose, Benjamin F. Maier +3
Vaccines are among the most powerful tools used to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. They are highly effective against infection and substantially reduce the risk of severe disease, ho…
Germany's current COVID-19 crisis is mainly driven by the unvaccinated
Benjamin F. Maier, Marc Wiedermann, Angelique Burdinski +4
Vaccines are the most powerful pharmaceutical tool to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. While the majority (about 65%) of the German population were fully vaccinated, incidence started…
Potential benefits of delaying the second mRNA COVID-19 vaccine dose
Benjamin F. Maier, Angelique Burdinski, Annika H. Rose +9
Vaccination against COVID-19 with the recently approved mRNA vaccines BNT162b2 (BioNTech/Pfizer) and mRNA-1273 (Moderna) is currently underway in a large number of countries. Howev…
COVID-19 lockdown induces disease-mitigating structural changes in mobility networks
Frank Schlosser, Benjamin F. Maier, Olivia Jack +3
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic many countries implemented containment measures to reduce disease transmission. Studies using digital data sources show that the mobility of in…
A Network Science Summer Course for High School Students
Florian Klimm, Benjamin F. Maier
We discuss a two-week summer course on Network Science that we taught for high school pupils. We present the concepts and contents of the course, evaluate them, and make the course…
Effective containment explains sub-exponential growth in confirmed cases of recent COVID-19 outbreak in Mainland China
Benjamin F. Maier, Dirk Brockmann
The recent outbreak of COVID-19 in Mainland China is characterized by a distinctive algebraic, sub-exponential increase of confirmed cases during the early phase of the epidemic, c…
Thermophoresis in Liquids and its Connection to Equilibrium Quantities
Benjamin F. Maier
Thermophoresis is the process of particles moving along a temperature gradient in thermodynamic systems. Even though it has been studied for over 150 years, there is neither a comp…
Thresholding normally distributed data creates complex networks
George T. Cantwell, Yanchen Liu, Benjamin F. Maier +4
Network data sets are often constructed by some kind of thresholding procedure. The resulting networks frequently possess properties such as heavy-tailed degree distributions, clus…
Generalization of the small-world effect on a model approaching the Erdős-Rényi random graph
Benjamin F. Maier
The famous Watts-Strogatz (WS) small-world network model does not approach the Erdős-Rényi (ER) random graph model in the limit of total randomization which can lead to confusion a…
Finite-Temperature Charge Dynamics and the Melting of the Mott Insulator
Xing-Jie Han, Chuang Chen, Jing Chen +6
The Mott insulator is the quintessential strongly correlated electronic state. We obtain complete insight into the physics of the two-dimensional Mott insulator by extending the sl…
Cover time for random walks on arbitrary complex networks
Benjamin F. Maier, Dirk Brockmann
We present an analytical method for computing the mean cover time of a random walk process on arbitrary, complex networks. The cover time is defined as the time a random walker req…
Application of Ewald's Method for Efficient Summation of Dyon Long-Range Potentials
Benjamin Maier, Falk Bruckmann, Simon Dinter +3
We study a model of dyons for SU(2) Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature T < T_c, in particular its ability to generate a confining force between a static quark antiquark pair.…
Confining dyon gas with finite-volume effects under control
Falk Bruckmann, Simon Dinter, Ernst-Michael Ilgenfritz +3
As an approach to describe the long-range properties of non-Abelian gauge theories at non-zero temperature T < T_c, we consider a non-interacting ensemble of dyons (magnetic monopo…