4 papers
Competing structures in a minimal double-well potential model of condensed matter
Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Bruno Escribano, Sándalo Roldán-Vargas +1
The microscopic structure of several amorphous substances often reveals complex patterns such as medium- or long-range order, spatial heterogeneity, and even local polycrystallinit…
Effect of diversity distribution symmetry on global oscillations of networks of excitable units
Stefano Scialla, Marco Patriarca, Els Heinsalu +2
We investigate the role of the degree of symmetry of the diversity distribution in shaping the collective dynamics of networks of coupled excitable units modeled by FitzHugh-Nagumo…
Dynamical equivalence between resonant translocation of a polymer chain and diversity-induced resonance
Marco Patriarca, Stefano Scialla, Els Heinsalu +2
Networks of heterogeneous oscillators are often seen to display collective synchronized oscillations, even when single elements of the network do not oscillate in isolation. It has…
Splitting the atom before the atom had been split
Julyan H. E. Cartwright
The history of the discovery of nuclear fission and how science fiction had anticipated it.