Statistical physics of vaccination

Z Wang, CT Bauch, S Bhattacharyya, A d'Onofrio… - Physics Reports, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Historically, infectious diseases caused considerable damage to human societies, and they
continue to do so today. To help reduce their impact, mathematical models of disease …

WKB theory of large deviations in stochastic populations

M Assaf, B Meerson - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and …, 2017‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Stochasticity can play an important role in the dynamics of biologically relevant populations.
These span a broad range of scales: from intra-cellular populations of molecules to …

COVID-19 superspreading suggests mitigation by social network modulation

BF Nielsen, L Simonsen, K Sneppen - Physical Review Letters, 2021‏ - APS
Although COVID-19 has caused severe suffering globally, the efficacy of nonpharmaceutical
interventions has been greater than typical models have predicted. Meanwhile, evidence is …

Hamiltonian dynamics of the SIS epidemic model with stochastic fluctuations

GM Nakamura, AS Martinez - Scientific reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
Empirical records of epidemics reveal that fluctuations are important factors for the spread
and prevalence of infectious diseases. The exact manner in which fluctuations affect …

Emergent failures and cascades in power grids: a statistical physics perspective

T Nesti, A Zocca, B Zwart - Physical review letters, 2018‏ - APS
We model power grids transporting electricity generated by intermittent renewable sources
as complex networks, where line failures can emerge indirectly by noisy power input at the …

Emergence of scale-free blackout sizes in power grids

T Nesti, F Sloothaak, B Zwart - Physical Review Letters, 2020‏ - APS
We model power grids as graphs with heavy-tailed sinks, which represent demand from
cities, and study cascading failures on such graphs. Our analysis links the scale-free nature …

Random walks on complex networks with first-passage resetting

F Huang, H Chen - Physical Review E, 2021‏ - APS
We study discrete-time random walks on arbitrary networks with first-passage resetting
processes. To the end, a set of nodes are chosen as observable nodes, and the walker is …

Outbreak size distribution in stochastic epidemic models

J Hindes, M Assaf, IB Schwartz - Physical Review Letters, 2022‏ - APS
Motivated by recent epidemic outbreaks, including those of COVID-19, we solve the
canonical problem of calculating the dynamics and likelihood of extensive outbreaks in a …

Random walks on complex networks under time-dependent stochastic resetting

H Chen, Y Ye - Physical Review E, 2022‏ - APS
We study discrete-time random walks on networks subject to a time-dependent stochastic
resetting, where the walker either hops randomly between neighboring nodes with a …

Concurrency-induced transitions in epidemic dynamics on temporal networks

T Onaga, JP Gleeson, N Masuda - Physical review letters, 2017‏ - APS
Social contact networks underlying epidemic processes in humans and animals are highly
dynamic. The spreading of infections on such temporal networks can differ dramatically from …