ArticleScience advances2021
A universal route to explosive phenomena.
Article in Science advances, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Perspectives on Robustness and Resilience of Complex Networks.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Proximity to explosive synchronization determines network collapse and recovery trajectories in neural and economic crises.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Decoding how higher-order network interactions shape contagion dynamics.Journal of mathematical biology · 2025Article
- Explosive neural networks via higher-order interactions in curved statistical manifolds.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Extreme synchronization transitions.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Microscopic origin of abrupt mixed-order phase transitions.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Hybrid universality classes of systemic cascades.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Hyperedge overlap drives explosive transitions in systems with higher-order interactions.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Attractor landscapes: a unifying conceptual model for understanding behaviour change across scales of observation.Health psychology review · 2023Article
- Systematic analysis and optimization of early warning signals for critical transitions using distribution data.iScience · 2023Article
- Higher-order interactions shape collective dynamics differently in hypergraphs and simplicial complexes.Nature communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
Critical transitions are observed in many complex systems. This includes the onset of synchronization in a network of coupled oscillators or the emergence of an epidemic state within a population. "Explosive" first-order transitions have caught particular attention in a variety of systems when classical models are generalized by incorporating additional effects. Here, we give a mathematical argument that the emergence of these first-order transitions is not surprising but rather a universally expected effect: Varying a classical model along a generic two-parameter family must lead to a change of the criticality. To illustrate our framework, we give three explicit examples of the effect in distinct physical systems: a model of adaptive epidemic dynamics, for a generalization of the Kuramoto model, and for a percolation transition.
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