The physics of higher-order interactions in complex systems

F Battiston, E Amico, A Barrat, G Bianconi… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Complex networks have become the main paradigm for modelling the dynamics of
interacting systems. However, networks are intrinsically limited to describing pairwise …

[HTML][HTML] Networks beyond pairwise interactions: Structure and dynamics

F Battiston, G Cencetti, I Iacopini, V Latora, M Lucas… - Physics reports, 2020 - Elsevier
The complexity of many biological, social and technological systems stems from the richness
of the interactions among their units. Over the past decades, a variety of complex systems …

Robustness and resilience of complex networks

O Artime, M Grassia, M De Domenico… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Complex networks are ubiquitous: a cell, the human brain, a group of people and the
Internet are all examples of interconnected many-body systems characterized by …

Adaptive dynamical networks

R Berner, T Gross, C Kuehn, J Kurths, S Yanchuk - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
It is a fundamental challenge to understand how the function of a network is related to its
structural organization. Adaptive dynamical networks represent a broad class of systems that …

The synchronized dynamics of time-varying networks

D Ghosh, M Frasca, A Rizzo, S Majhi, S Rakshit… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past two decades, complex network theory provided the ideal framework for
investigating the intimate relationships between the topological properties characterizing the …

Explosive higher-order Kuramoto dynamics on simplicial complexes

AP Millán, JJ Torres, G Bianconi - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
The higher-order interactions of complex systems, such as the brain, are captured by their
simplicial complex structure and have a significant effect on dynamics. However, the existing …

Controlling complex networks with complex nodes

RM D'Souza, M di Bernardo, YY Liu - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Real-world networks often consist of millions of heterogenous elements that interact at
multiple timescales and length scales. The fields of statistical physics and control theory both …

[HTML][HTML] Higher order interactions in complex networks of phase oscillators promote abrupt synchronization switching

PS Skardal, A Arenas - Communications Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Synchronization processes play critical roles in the functionality of a wide range of both
natural and man-made systems. Recent work in physics and neuroscience highlights the …

The why, how, and when of representations for complex systems

L Torres, AS Blevins, D Bassett, T Eliassi-Rad - SIAM Review, 2021 - SIAM
Complex systems, composed at the most basic level of units and their interactions, describe
phenomena in a wide variety of domains, from neuroscience to computer science and …

[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 …