Success of social inequality measures in predicting critical or failure points in some models of physical systems

A Ghosh, S Biswas, BK Chakrabarti - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Statistical physicists and social scientists both extensively study some characteristic features
of the unequal distributions of energy, cluster, or avalanche sizes and of income, wealth …

Sandpile universality in social inequality: Gini and kolkata measures

S Banerjee, S Biswas, BK Chakrabarti, A Ghosh… - Entropy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Social inequalities are ubiquitous and evolve towards a universal limit. Herein, we
extensively review the values of inequality measures, namely the Gini (g) index and the …

Gintropic scaling of scientometric indexes

TS Biró, A Telcs, M Józsa, Z Néda - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2023 - Elsevier
The most frequently used indicators for the productivity and impact of scientists are the total
number of publication (N pub), total number of citations (N cit) and the Hirsch (h) index …

Edwards–Wilkinson depinning transition in fractional Brownian motion background

N Valizadeh, H Hamzehpour, M Samadpour… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
There are various reports about the critical exponents associated with the depinning
transition. In this study, we investigate how the disorder strength present in the support can …

Do successful researchers reach the self-organized critical point?

A Ghosh, BK Chakrabarti - Physics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The index of success of the researchers is now mostly measured using the Hirsch index (h).
Our recent precise demonstration, that statistically h∼ N c∼ N p, where N p and N c denote …

Evolving cycles and self-organised criticality in social dynamics

B Tadić, MM Dankulov, R Melnik - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
In many complex systems, self-organised criticality (SOC) provides a mechanism for the
diversity of spatiotemporal scales that optimises the system's response to omnipresent …

Inequality of avalanche sizes in models of fracture

Diksha, S Kundu, BK Chakrabarti, S Biswas - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Prediction of an imminent catastrophic event in a driven disordered system is of paramount
importance—from the laboratory scale controlled fracture experiment to the largest scale of …

Prediction of depinning transitions in interface models using Gini and Kolkata indices

Diksha, G Eswar, S Biswas - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
The intermittent dynamics of driven interfaces through disordered media and its subsequent
depinning for large enough driving force is a common feature for a myriad of diverse …

Critical scaling through Gini index

S Das, S Biswas - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
In the systems showing critical behavior, various response functions have a singularity at the
critical point. Therefore, as the driving field is tuned toward its critical value, the response …

Prediction of imminent failure using supervised learning in a fiber bundle model

Diksha, S Biswas - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Prediction of a breakdown in disordered solids under external loading is a question of
paramount importance. Here we use a fiber bundle model for disordered solids and record …