Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Dynamics for Complex Systems
A Special Issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300) belonging to the section "Statistical Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 1905
Editors
Interests: statistical physics; complex systems; nonlinear dynamics; transitions to chaos; critical fluctuations; localization transition; glassy dynamics; self-organization; rank distributions; allometric scaling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The mounting number of studies on complex systems in recent years is quickly consuming its initial empirical, heuristic stage and offering views of its next phenomenological stage, with predictive and comprehension qualities. From an exact sciences perspective, successful schemes have been developed based on statistical physics and nonlinear dynamical concepts. This Special Issue seeks to highlight innovative research based on the above-mentioned disciplines and concepts, offering new methods or the corroboration of phenomenological approaches to foresee and understand complex systems.
Topics of interest:
1. Basic notions, guiding concepts and core issues on complex systems
- Demonstration of paradigms, edge of chaos, criticality and others.
- Self-organization, including self-organized criticality.
- Thermodynamic viewpoints of diversity, biological or others.
2. Insights into empirical laws found in complex systems
- Rank distributions, including Zipf law.
- Regularities in cosmological, geophysical and other structures.
- Allometric scaling in biology and in human organizations.
3. Approaches and methods applied to the study complex systems
- Game theory and evolutionary dynamics.
- Self-similar and scale invariant network approaches.
- Large numbers and large-scale order questions.
4. Modeling of complex systems via condensed-matter physics concepts
- Critical fluctuations applied to catastrophes and tipping points.
- Glassy dynamics applied to traffic issues.
- Localization or synchronization applied to collective behavior and foraging.
Prof. Dr. Alberto Robledo
Dr. Francisco J. Sevilla
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- dissipative processes
- onset of chaos
- borderline behaviors
- self-organization
- diversity
- Zipf law
- allometry
- evolutionary game theory
- time series into networks
- urban dynamics
- swarm intelligence.
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