Colloquium: Criticality and dynamical scaling in living systems

MA Munoz - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
A celebrated and controversial hypothesis suggests that some biological systems—parts,
aspects, or groups of them—may extract important functional benefits from operating at the …

[HTML][HTML] Statistical physics approaches to the complex Earth system

J Fan, J Meng, J Ludescher, X Chen, Y Ashkenazy… - Physics reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Global warming, extreme climate events, earthquakes and their accompanying
socioeconomic disasters pose significant risks to humanity. Yet due to the nonlinear …

Clogging of noncohesive suspension flows

A Marin, M Souzy - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
When flowing through narrow channels or constrictions, many-body systems exhibit various
flowing patterns, yet they can also get stuck. In many of these systems, the flowing elements …

Modeling bursts and heavy tails in human dynamics

A Vázquez, JG Oliveira, Z Dezsö, KI Goh, I Kondor… - Physical Review E …, 2006 - APS
The dynamics of many social, technological and economic phenomena are driven by
individual human actions, turning the quantitative understanding of human behavior into a …

Universal features of correlated bursty behaviour

M Karsai, K Kaski, AL Barabási, J Kertész - Scientific reports, 2012 - nature.com
Inhomogeneous temporal processes, like those appearing in human communications,
neuron spike trains and seismic signals, consist of high-activity bursty intervals alternating …

[HTML][HTML] Why is probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) still used?

F Mulargia, PB Stark, RJ Geller - Physics of the Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Even though it has never been validated by objective testing, Probabilistic Seismic Hazard
Analysis (PSHA) has been widely used for almost 50 years by governments and industry in …

Statistical similarity between the compression of a porous material and earthquakes

J Baró, Á Corral, X Illa, A Planes, EKH Salje… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
It has long been stated that there are profound analogies between fracture experiments and
earthquakes; however, few works attempt a complete characterization of the parallels …

[책][B] Bursty human dynamics

M Karsai, HH Jo, K Kaski - 2018 - Springer
Bursty dynamics is a common temporal property of various complex systems in nature but it
also characterises the dynamics of human actions and interactions. At the …

Collective behavior of earthquakes and faults: Continuum‐discrete transitions, progressive evolutionary changes, and different dynamic regimes

Y Ben‐Zion - Reviews of Geophysics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Crustal deformation patterns are affected by multiscale granulation and healing processes
associated with phase transitions between continuum and discrete states of rocks. The …

Statistical physics approach to earthquake occurrence and forecasting

L de Arcangelis, C Godano, JR Grasso, E Lippiello - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
There is striking evidence that the dynamics of the Earth crust is controlled by a wide variety
of mutually dependent mechanisms acting at different spatial and temporal scales. The …