We study the efficiency of parallel tempering Monte Carlo technique for calculating true ground states of the Edwards–Anderson spin glass model. Bimodal and Gaussian bond distributions were considered in two- and three-dimensional lattices. By a systematic analysis we find a simple formula to...

We study the lobby index (l-index for short) as a local node centrality measure for complex networks. The l-index is compared with degree (a local measure), betweenness and Eigenvector centralities (two global measures) in the case of a biological network (Yeast interaction protein–protein...

We report some numerical simulations to investigate the existence of a self-organized critical (SOC) state in a random-neighbor version of the OFC model for a range of parameters corresponding to a non-conservative case. In contrast to a recent work, we do not find any evidence of SOC. We use a...

We study a simple map as a minimal model of excitable cells. The map has two fast variables which mimic the behavior of class I neurons, undergoing a sub-critical Hopf bifurcation. Adding a third slow variable allows the system to present bursts and other interesting biological behaviors....

We study the problem of determining the Hamiltonian of a fully connected Ising spin glass of N units from a set of measurements, whose sizes needs to be O(N2) bits. The student–teacher scenario, used to study learning in feed-forward neural networks, is here extended to spin systems with...