Author, as appears in the article.: Arenas, A.; Nicosia, V.; Skardal, P.S.; Latora, V.

Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques

URV's Author/s: ARENAS MORENO, ALEJANDRO; Nicosia, V.; Skardal, P.S.; Latora, V.

Keywords: Disease spreading Transport process Nutrient transport

Abstract: We introduce a framework to intertwine dynamical processes of different nature, each with its own distinct network topology, using a multilayer network approach. As an example of collective phenomena emerging from the interactions of multiple dynamical processes, we study a model where neural dynamics and nutrient transport are bidirectionally coupled in such a way that the allocation of the transport process at one layer depends on the degree of synchronization at the other layer, and vice versa. We show numerically, and we prove analytically, that the multilayer coupling induces a spontaneous explosive synchronization and a heterogeneous distribution of allocations, otherwise not present in the two systems considered separately. Our framework can find application to other cases where two or more dynamical processes such as synchronization, opinion formation, information diffusion, or disease spreading, are interacting with each other.

Research group: Algorithms embedded in Physical Systems

Thematic Areas: Mathematics Matemáticas Matemàtiques

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 0031-9007

Author identifier: ; 0000-0003-0636-3278; 0000-0001-9955-6874; 0000-0002-0984-8038

Record's date: 2017-04-21

Journal volume: 118

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.138302

Article's DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.138302

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2017

First page: Art.num. 138302

Publication Type: Article Artículo Article