Monodominance in tropical forests: modelling reveals emerging clusters and phase transitions

M Kazmierczak, P Backmann… - Journal of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Tropical forests are highly diverse ecosystems, but within such forests there can be large
patches dominated by a single tree species. The myriad presumed mechanisms that lead to …

Percolation thresholds on planar Euclidean relative-neighborhood graphs

O Melchert - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2013 - APS
In the present article, statistical properties regarding the topology and standard percolation
on relative neighborhood graphs (RNGs) for planar sets of points, considering the Euclidean …

Typical and large-deviation properties of minimum-energy paths on disordered hierarchical lattices

O Melchert, AK Hartmann - The European Physical Journal B, 2013 - Springer
We perform numerical simulations to study the optimal path problem on disordered
hierarchical graphs with effective dimension d eff≈ 2.32. Therein, edge energies are drawn …

Mean-field behavior of the negative-weight percolation model on random regular graphs

O Melchert, AK Hartmann, M Mézard - … E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter …, 2011 - APS
We investigate both analytically and numerically the ensemble of minimum-weight loops in
the negative-weight percolation model on random graphs with fixed connectivity and …

Paths in the minimally weighted path model are incompatible with Schramm-Loewner evolution

C Norrenbrock, O Melchert, AK Hartmann - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2013 - APS
We study numerically the geometrical properties of minimally weighted paths that appear in
the minimally weighted path (MWP) model on two-dimensional lattices assuming a …

Configurational statistics of densely and fully packed loops in the negative-weight percolation model

O Melchert, AK Hartmann - The European Physical Journal B, 2011 - Springer
By means of numerical simulations we investigate the configurational properties of densely
and fully packed configurations of loops in the negative-weight percolation (NWP) model. In …

Analysis of the loop length distribution for the negative-weight percolation problem in dimensions through

G Claussen, L Apolo, O Melchert, AK Hartmann - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2012 - APS
We consider the negative weight percolation (NWP) problem on hypercubic lattice graphs
with fully periodic boundary conditions in all relevant dimensions from d= 2 to the upper …

Biased and greedy random walks on two-dimensional lattices with quenched randomness: The greedy ant within a disordered environment

TL Mitran, O Melchert, AK Hartmann - … E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter …, 2013 - APS
The main characteristics of biased greedy random walks (BGRWs) on two-dimensional
lattices with real-valued quenched disorder on the lattice edges are studied. Here the …

Excitations in high-dimensional random-field Ising magnets

B Ahrens, AK Hartmann - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2012 - APS
Domain walls and droplet-like excitation of the random-field Ising magnet are studied in
d={3, 4, 5, 6, 7} dimensions by means of exact numerical ground-state calculations. They are …

Directed negative-weight percolation

C Norrenbrock, MM Mkrtchian, AK Hartmann - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
We consider the negative-weight percolation model on directed graphs. In particular, we
study the model on a two-dimensional, weighted, periodic, centered square lattice. Bond …