The boards of large corporations sharing some of their directors are connected in complex networks. Boards are responsible for corporations' long-term strategy and are often involved in decisions about a common topic related to the belief in economical growth or recession. We are interested in...

The nature of the dynamics of opinion formation or zero-temperature Ising models modeled as a decision-by-majority process in complex networks is investigated using eigenmode analysis. The Hamiltonian of the system is defined and estimated by eigenvectors of the adjacency matrix constructed from...

We analyze a science collaboration network, i.e. a network whose nodes are scientists with edges connecting them for each paper published together. Furthermore, we develop a model for the simulation of discontiguous small-world networks that shows good coherence with empirical data.

Microtubules (MTs) are cytoskeletal protein polymers orchestrating a host of important cellular functions including, but not limited to, cell support, cell division, cell motility and cell transport. We construct a toy-model of the MT lattice composed of classical vector Ising spins (dipole...

We consider a tapping dynamics, analogous to that in experiments on granular media, on the simple one-dimensional ferromagnetic Ising model. When unperturbed, the system undergoes a single spin flip falling dynamics where only energy lowering moves occur. With this dynamics the system has an...