12 papers
Catastrophic disruption cascades driven by the nonlinearity of systemic risk
Jan Fialkowski, Shlomo Havlin, Stefan Thurner
Whether the COVID-19 pandemic or the Iran war, recent events have highlighted the systemic fragility of supply chains. Due to highly specific and mutual buyer-supplier dependencies…
Criticality and reduced dynamical resilience in PM2.5 pollution systems
Yuan Chen, Yongwen Zhang, Xu Li +5
The paper introduces a finite-memory multiplicative reversion model to link the lognormal distribution of PM2.5 concentrations with temporal memory, variance amplification, and loc…
Planetary climate interactions of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Ziyan Wang, Teng Liu, Shang Wang +10
The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), Earth's "Third Pole", profoundly shapes the Asian monsoon and regional climate and exerts far-reaching influence on the global climate system. Ye…
Negativity Percolation in Continuous-Variable Quantum Networks
Yaqi Zhao, Kan He, Yongtao Zhang +4
Quantum networks (QNs) have been predominantly driven by discrete-variable (DV) architectures. Yet, optical platforms naturally generate Gaussian states--the common states of conti…
Two phase transitions in modular multiplex networks
Yael Kfir-Cohen, Dana Ben Porath, Bnaya Gross +2
Modular networks, such as critical infrastructures, are often built from distinct, densely connected modules (e.g., cities) that are sparsely interconnected. When such networks are…
The mechanistic origin of branching-driven nucleation in abrupt phase transitions
Leyang Xue, Shengling Gao, Bnaya Gross +5
Phase transitions are the macroscopic manifestation of microscopic processes that drive a system towards a new state. The detailed evolution of these processes, particularly in abr…