Professor Ginestra Bianconi
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Email: g.bianconi@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0)20 7882 5444Room Number: Mathematical Sciences Building, Room: MB-521Website: http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~gbianconiOffice Hours: Semester B: Wednesday 11:00-12:00 for students of MTH6142 Thursday 13:00-14:00 on Teams for Advisees
Profile
Ginestra Bianconi is Professor of Applied Mathematics in the School of Mathematical Sciences of Queen Mary University of London and she is Alan Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. Currently she is Chief Editor of JPhys Complexity, Editor of PloSOne, and Scientific Reports, and she is Associate Editor of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals. In 2020 she was awarded the Network Science Fellowships by the NetSci Society.
Her research activity on Statistical Mechanics and Network Science includes Network Theory and its interdisciplinary applications. She has formulated the Bianconi-Barabasi model that displays the Bose-Einstein condensation in complex networks. She has worked in network entropy and network ensembles and on dynamical processes on networks. In the last years, she has been focusing on multilayer networks, simplicial complexes, network geometry and topology, percolation and network control. She is the author of the book Multilayer Networks: Structure and Function by Oxford University Press.
Research
Research Interests:
- Statistical mechanics of networks
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- Multilayer Networks
- Higher-order networks and simplicial complexes
- Network Topology and Network Geometry
- Network modelling
- Percolation theory
- Synchronization
- Quantum phenomena on networks
- Critical phenomena on networks
- Entropy measures for network ensembles
- Models of social network dynamics
- Centrality measures for economic and financial networks
- Biological Networks
- Neural networks and brain dynamics
- Molecular Networks
- Complexity and criticality in condensed matter
Examples of research funding:
EPSRC Network Plus grant for holding the workshop "Physics challenges for Machine Learning and Network Science"
Royal Society "Large deviation theory of dynamical processes on networks and its application to ecological systems"
Publications
Ginestra Bianconi has published more than 150 papers and her work has appeared in major scientific journals such as Science, Nature, PNAS, PRX and Physical Review Letters. She is the author of the book Multilayer Networks: Structure and Function by Oxford University Press.
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(2021). Link overlap influences opinion dynamics on multiplex networks of Ashkin-Teller spins Physical Review E.
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(2021). Spectral Detection of Simplicial Communities via Hodge Laplacians Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics.
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(2021). Spectral detection of simplicial communities via Hodge Laplacians Physical Review E.
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(2021). Local topological moves determine global diffusion properties of hyperbolic higher-order networks Physical Review E.
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(2021). Universal nonlinear infection kernel from heterogeneous exposure on higher-order networks Physical Review Letters.
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(2021). The physics of higher-order interactions in complex systems Nature Physics.
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(2021). Higher-order percolation processes on multiplex hypergraphs Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2021). The topological Dirac equation of networks and simplicial complexes JPhys Complexity.
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(2021). Higher-order simplicial synchronization of coupled topological signals Communications Physics.
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(2021). D-dimensional oscillators in simplicial structures: odd and even dimensions display different synchronization scenarios Chaos, Solitons and Fractals.
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(2021). A message-passing approach to epidemic tracing and mitigation with apps Physical Review Research.
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(2021). Beyond COVID-19: Network science and sustainable exit strategies Journal of Physics: Complexity.
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(2020). Non-Markovian Majority-Vote model Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2020). Probing the spectral dimension of quantum network geometries JPhys Complexity.
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(2020). Epidemic plateau in critical susceptible-infected-removed dynamics with nontrivial initial conditions Physical Review E.
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(2020). Epidemic plateau in critical susceptible-infected-removed dynamics with nontrivial initial conditions. Phys Rev E.
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(2020). Epidemics with containment measures Physical Review E.
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(2020). Renormalization group theory of percolation on pseudo-fractal simplicial and cell complexes Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2020). The higher-order spectrum of simplicial complexes: a renormalization group approach Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical.
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(2020). Classical Information Theory of Networks Journal of Physics: Complexity.
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(2020). Simplicial complexes: higher-order spectral dimension and dynamics Journal of Physics: Complexity.
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(2020). Welcome to JPhys Complexity Journal of Physics: Complexity.
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(2020). Explosive higher-order Kuramoto dynamics on simplicial complexes Physical Review Letters.
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(2020). The spectral dimension of simplicial complexes: a renormalization group theory Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.
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(2019). Percolation on branching simplicial and cell complexes and its relation to interdependent percolation Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2019). Multiplex network analysis of the UK OTC derivatives market International Journal of Finance and Economics.
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(2019). Quantum statistics in Network Geometry with Fractional Flavor Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.
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(2019). Enhancing the robustness of a multiplex network leads to multiple discontinuous percolation transitions Physical Review E.
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(2019). Renormalization group for link percolation on planar hyperbolic manifolds Physical Review E.
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(2019). Statistical mechanics of bipartite $z$-matchings Europhysics Letters.
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(2019). Beyond the clustering coefficient: A topological analysis of node neighbourhoods in complex networks Chaos, Solitons and Fractals X.
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(2019). Large deviation theory of percolation on multiplex networks Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.
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(2019). Synchronization in Network Geometries with Finite Spectral Dimension Physical Review E.
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(2018). Controlling the uncertain response of real multiplex networks to random damage Physical Review E.
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(2018). Topological Percolation on Hyperbolic Simplicial Complexes Physical Review E.
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(2018). Network Geometry and Complexity Journal of Statistical Physics.
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(2018). Complex Network Geometry and Frustrated Synchronization Scientific Reports.
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(2018). Multiplex network analysis of the UK OTC derivatives market journal.
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(2018). Dense Power-law Networks and Simplicial Complexes Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2018). Sparse power-law network model for reliable statistical predictions based on sampled data Entropy.
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(2018). Complex network view of evolving manifolds Physical Review E.
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(2018). Multilink Communities of Multiplex Networks PLoS ONE.
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(2018). Multilink communities of multiplex networks. PLoS One.
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(2018). Rare events and discontinuous percolation transitions Physical Review E.
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(2017). Machine learning meets network science: dimensionality reduction for fast and efficient embedding of networks in the hyperbolic space Nature Communications.
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(2017). Centralities of Nodes and Influences of Layers in Large Multiplex Networks Journal of Complex Networks.
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(2017). Fluctuations in percolation of sparse complex networks Physical Review E.
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(2017). Weighted Growing Simplicial Complexes Physical Review E.
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(2017). Epidemic spreading and bond percolation in multilayer networks Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.
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(2017). Emergent Hyperbolic Network Geometry Scientific Reports.
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(2017). Redundant interdependencies boost the robustness of multiplex networks Physical Review X.
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(2017). Publisher’s Note: Redundant Interdependencies Boost the Robustness of Multiplex Networks [Phys. Rev. X 7, 011013 (2017)] Physical Review X.
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(2016). Percolation in real multiplex networks Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2016). Network analysis and modelling: Special issue of European Journal of Applied Mathematics EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS.
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(2016). Functional Multiplex PageRank Europhysics Letters: a letters journal exploring the frontiers of physics.
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(2016). Message passing theory for percolation models on multiplex networks with link overlap Physical Review E.
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(2016). The role of dimensionality in neuronal network dynamics Scientific Reports.
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(2016). Correlated Edge Overlaps in Multiplex Networks Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics.
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(2016). Generalized network structures: The configuration model and the canonical ensemble of simplicial complexes Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics.
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(2016). Extracting Information from Multiplex Networks Chaos.
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(2016). Network geometry with flavor: From complexity to quantum geometry. Phys Rev E.
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(2016). Multiplex networks with heterogeneous activities of the nodes. Phys Rev E.
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(2016). Emergence of Multiplex Communities in Collaboration Networks. PLoS One.
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(2015). Mesoscopic structures reveal the network between the layers of multiplex data sets Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2015). Inhomogeneity of charge-density-wave order and quenched disorder in a high-Tc superconductor. Nature.
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(2015). Critical behavior at a dynamic vortex insulator-to-metal transition Science.
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(2015). Complex Quantum Network Manifolds in Dimension d > 2 are Scale-Free. Sci Rep.
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(2015). Interdisciplinary and physics challenges of network theory EPL (Europhysics Letters).
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(2015). Complex quantum network geometries: Evolution and phase transitions. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2015). Multiscale characterization of ageing and cancer progression by a novel network entropy measure. Mol Biosyst.
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(2015). Emergence of soft communities from geometric preferential attachment. Sci Rep.
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(2015). Statistical mechanics of random geometric graphs: Geometry-induced first-order phase transition. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2015). Degree correlations in signed social networks Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2015). Mutually connected component of networks of networks with replica nodes. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2015). Supersymmetric multiplex networks described by coupled Bose and Fermi statistics. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2014). Correlations between weights and overlap in ensembles of weighted multiplex networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2014). The structure and dynamics of multilayer networks Physics Reports.
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(2014). Nonlinear growth and condensation in multiplex networks Physical Review E.
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(2014). Triadic closure as a basic generating mechanism of communities in complex networks Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2014). Network controllability is determined by the density of low in-degree and out-degree nodes. Phys Rev Lett.
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(2014). Entropy distribution and condensation in random networks with a given degree distribution Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2014). Weighted Multiplex Networks PLoS ONE 9(6): e97857 (2014).
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(2014). Multiple percolation transitions in a configuration model of a network of networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2014). Condensation and topological phase transitions in a dynamical network model with rewiring of the links. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2014). Emergence of overlap in ensembles of spatial multiplexes and statistical mechanics of spatial interacting network ensembles Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2013). Percolation in multiplex networks with overlap Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
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(2013). Models, Entropy and Information of Temporal Social Networks Understanding Complex Systems.
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(2013). Multiplex PageRank journal.
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(2013). Statistical Mechanics of Multiplex Ensembles: Entropy and Overlap Phys.Rev.E.
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(2013). Percolation on interacting, antagonistic networks Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment.
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(2013). Selection for replicases in protocells. PLoS Comput Biol.
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(2013). Connect and win: The role of social networks in political elections EPL (Europhysics Letters).
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(2013). Phase transition of light on complex quantum networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2013). Superconductor-insulator transition in a network of 2d percolation clusters EPL, 101.
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(2012). Monochromaticity in neutral evolutionary network models. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2012). Dynamics of ranking processes in complex systems. Phys Rev Lett.
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(2012). Enhancement of Tc in the superconductor–insulator phase transition on scale-free networks Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment.
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(2012). Phase diagram of the Bose-Hubbard model on complex networks EPL (Europhysics Letters).
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(publicationYear). A comparison between the quasi-species evolution and stochastic quantization of fields European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems.
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(2012). Features and heterogeneities in growing network models. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2012). Superconductor-insulator transition on annealed complex networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2012). Quantum mechanics formalism for biological evolution Chaos Solitons & Fractals.
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(2012). Differential network entropy reveals cancer system hallmarks. Sci Rep.
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(2012). The dynamics of group formation among leeches. Front Physiol.
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(2011). Competition and multiscaling m evolving networks journal.
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(2011). Entropy rate of nonequilibrium growing networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2011). Evolution and control of oxygen order in a cuprate superconductor. Nat Mater.
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(2011). Modeling microevolution in a changing environment: the evolving quasispecies and the diluted champion process Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment.
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(2011). Social network dynamics of face-to-face interactions. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2011). Unified framework for quasispecies evolution and stochastic quantization. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2011). Shannon and von Neumann entropy of random networks with heterogeneous expected degree. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2011). Entropy of dynamical social networks. PLoS One.
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(2011). Social interactions model and adaptability of human behavior. Front Physiol.
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(2010). Bose-Einstein distribution, condensation transition, and multiple stationary states in multiloci evolution of diploid populations. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2010). Network resilience against intelligent attacks constrained by the degree-dependent node removal cost Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical.
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(2010). Gibbs entropy of network ensembles by cavity methods. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2010). Critical fluctuations in spatial complex networks. Phys Rev Lett.
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(2010). Dynamical and bursty interactions in social networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2010). Mean-field methods in evolutionary duplication-innovation-loss models for the genome-level repertoire of protein domains. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2009). GABAergic hub neurons orchestrate synchrony in developing hippocampal networks. Science.
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(2009). Statistical mechanics of the "Chinese restaurant process": lack of self-averaging, anomalous finite-size effects, and condensation. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2009). Entropy measures for networks: toward an information theory of complex topologies. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2009). A minimal model for congestion phenomena on complex networks Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment.
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(2009). The percolation transition in correlated hypergraphs Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment.
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(2009). Assessing the relevance of node features for network structure. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
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(2009). Non-neutral theory of biodiversity EPL (Europhysics Letters).
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(2009). Effects of Tobin taxes in minority game markets Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
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(2009). Percolation transition and distribution of connected components in generalized random network ensembles Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical.
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(2009). Entropy of network ensembles. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2009). Congestion phenomena on complex networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2008). Dynamics of condensation in growing complex networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2008). Flux distribution of metabolic networks close to optimal biomass production. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2008). On the rich-club effect in dense and weighted networks Eur. Phys. J. B.
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(2008). Entropies of complex networks with hierarchically constrained topologies. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2008). Most probable degree distribution at fixed structural entropy Pramana.
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(2008). Algorithm for counting large directed loops Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical.
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(2008). Local structure of directed networks. Phys Rev Lett.
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(2008). Viable flux distribution in metabolic networks Networks & Heterogeneous Media.
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(2007). The entropy of randomized network ensembles EPL (Europhysics Letters).
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(2007). Comparing association network algorithms for reverse engineering of large-scale gene regulatory networks: synthetic versus real data. Bioinformatics.
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(2007). A statistical mechanics approach for scale-free networks and finite-scale networks. Chaos.
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(2007). LINEAR AND NONLINEAR METHODS FOR GENE REGULATORY NETWORK INFERENCE IFAC Proceedings Volumes.
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(2007). Theory of rumour spreading in complex social networks Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2006). Number of cliques in random scale-free network ensembles Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena.
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(2006). Effect of degree correlations on the loop structure of scale-free networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2006). Emergence of large cliques in random scale-free networks EPL (Europhysics Letters).
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(2006). Scale-free networks with an exponent less than two. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2005). Emergence of weight-topology correlations in complex scale-free networks EPL (Europhysics Letters).
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(2005). Self‐Organized‐Critical network dynamics AIP Conference Proceedings.
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(2005). Loops of any size and Hamilton cycles in random scale-free networks Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment.
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(2005). Loops structure of the Internet at the autonomous system level. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2005). On the non-trivial dynamics of complex networks Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2004). Clogging and self-organized criticality in complex networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2004). Number of cycles in off-equilibrium scale-free networks and in the Internet at the Autonomous System Level The European Physical Journal B.
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(2004). Ecology of active and passive players and their impact on information selection Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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(2004). Effect of Temperature and X-Ray Illumination on the Oxygen Ordering in La2CuO4.1 Superconductor Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism.
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(2003). The strain of CuO2 lattice: the second variable for the phase diagram of cuprate perovskites Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical.
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(2003). Size of quantum networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2003). TEMPERATURE AND X-RAY ILLUMINATION EFFECTS IN OXYGEN DOPED La2CuO4 International Journal of Modern Physics B.
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(2003). Number of loops of size h in growing scale-free networks. Phys Rev Lett.
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(2002). Quantum statistics in complex networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2002). Mean field solution of the Ising model on a Barabási–Albert network Physics Letters A.
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(2002). Growing Cayley trees described by a Fermi distribution. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.
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(2002). DISORDER TO ORDER-LIKE TRANSITION IN La2CuO4.1 SUPERCONDUCTOR INDUCED BY HIGH INTENSITY X-RAYS International Journal of Modern Physics B.
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(2002). Lattice-Charge Stripes in the High-Tc Superconductors journal.
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(2002). Photo-Induced Phase Transition to a Striped Polaron Crystal in Cuprates Phase Transitions.
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(2001). Bose-Einstein condensation in complex networks. Phys Rev Lett.
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(2001). Competition and multiscaling in evolving networks EPL (Europhysics Letters).
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(2001). A quantum phase transition driven by the electron lattice interaction gives high TC superconductivity Journal of Alloys and Compounds.
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(2001). The strain quantum critical point for superstripes AIP Conference Proceedings.
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(2001). ERRATA: FERMIONIC AND BOSONIC SELF-ORGANIZED NETWORKS: A REPRESENTATION OF QUANTUM STATISTICS International Journal of Modern Physics B.
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(2000). METALLIC STRIPES IN OXYGEN DOPED La2CuO4 International Journal of Modern Physics B.
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(2000). SELF-ORGANIZED NETWORKS AS A REPRESENTATION OF QUANTUM STATISTICS International Journal of Modern Physics B.
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(2000). THE STRAIN QUANTUM CRITICAL POINT FOR SUPERSTRIPES IN THE PHASE DIAGRAM OF ALL CUPRATE PEROVSKITES International Journal of Modern Physics B.
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(2000). Evidence for the strain critical point in high Tc superconductors The European Physical Journal B.
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(2000). The stripe critical point for cuprates Journal of Physics Condensed Matter.
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(2000). Coexistence of stripes and superconductivity: Tc amplification in a superlattice of superconducting stripes Physica C Superconductivity.
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(2000). Transformation of strings into an inhomogeneous phase of stripes and itinerant carriers Physics Letters A.
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(2000). Power-Law Distribution of the World Wide Web Science.
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(2000). Charge stripes formation by x-ray illumination in high Tc superconductors AIP Conference Proceedings.
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(1999). Renormalization-group study of one-dimensional systems with roughening transitions. Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics.
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(1999). Non perturbative renormalization group approach to surface growth Computer Physics Communications.