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nlin.CD2026

A New Route to Chaos through the Geometric Composition of Non-Normal Amplification

D. Sornette, V. R. Saiprasad, V. Troude

Chaos emerges when stretching is repeatedly recycled by reinjection. We uncover a new route to chaos in which the decisive variable is the temporal order of non-normal tangent maps…

physics.bio-ph2026

No persistent circadian oscillator at genome resolution: pseudo-coherence in gut microbiome dynamics

V. Troude, L. Takayasu, R. Maskawa +4

Diurnal rhythms in the gut microbiome are commonly read as evidence of host-driven entrainment or of microbial oscillators that synchronise to a common clock. We reanalyse hourly g…

physics.data-an2026

Inferring Non-Normal Amplification Geometry from Multivariate Time Series

V. R. Saiprasad, V. Troude, D. Sornette

Across hydrodynamics, ecology, neuroscience, network dynamics, non-Hermitian physics, and socio-economic systems, asymptotically stable dynamics can exhibit large transient amplifi…

nlin.AO2026

Pseudo-Coherence and Stochastic Synchronization: A Non-Normal Route to Collective Dynamics without Oscillators

V. Troude, D. Sornette

Collective temporal organization in complex systems is commonly attributed to synchronization, resonance, or proximity to dynamical instabilities. Here we identify a distinct mecha…

nlin.CD2026

Non-Normal Route to Chaos

D. Sornette, V. R. Saiprasad, V. Troude

Deterministic chaos is usually associated with local spectral expansion: Jacobian eigenvalues are expected to exceed unity somewhere on the attractor. We show that this view is inc…

physics.bio-ph2025

Life as Non-Normal Chemical Accelerator

Didier Sornette, Virgile Troude

Life is commonly described as a self-organized, far-from-equilibrium process that maintains internal order by consuming free energy and exporting entropy. This thermodynamic view u…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Non-Normal Eigenvector Amplification in Multi-Dimensional Kesten Processes

Virgile Troude, Didier Sornette

Heavy-tailed fluctuations and power law statistics pervade physics, finance, and economics, yet their origin is often ascribed to systems poised near criticality. Here we show that…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Phase Transitions Without Instability: A Universal Mechanism from Non-Normal Dynamics

Virgile Troude, Didier Sornette

We identify a new universality class of phase transitions that arises in non-normal systems, challenging the classical view that transitions require eigenvalue instabilities. In tr…

nlin.CD2025

Eigenvector Geometry as a New Route to Criticality in Random Multiplicative Systems

Virgile Troude, Didier Sornette

Heavy-tailed fluctuations and power law distributions pervade physics, biology, and the social sciences, with numerous mechanisms proposed for their emergence. Kesten processes, wh…

nlin.CD2025

Unifying Framework for Amplification Mechanisms: Criticality, Resonance and Non-Normality

Virgile Troude, Didier Sornette

We bring together three key amplification mechanisms in linear dynamical systems: spectral criticality, resonance, and non-normality. We present a unified linear framework that bot…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Non-Normal Phase Transitions: A New Universality in Complex Systems

Virgile Troude, Didier Sornette

We identify a new universality class of phase transitions that emerges in non-normal systems, extending the classical framework beyond eigenvalue instabilities. Unlike traditional…

nlin.CD2024★ 1 cited

Illusions of Criticality: Crises Without Tipping Points

Virgile Troude, Sandro Claudio Lera, Ke Wu +1

Abrupt shifts in ecosystems, brains, markets, and climate are often diagnosed as signs of approaching a tipping point, i.e. a critical bifurcation where stability is lost. Here we…