One year of work.. what's next?

Post date: Jan 12, 2014 7:1:21 PM

Last year saw me jumping into complex systems.

Three papers came out,

this one and this one in particular are on scale free graphs.

The first is a collaboration with Alioscia Hamma, who's in Bejing (former PI researcher), and Massimiliano Di Ventra, a well known condensed matter physicist, involved in the last years in studying memristors (and other active electrical components). The paper establishes a mechanism for a local preferential attachment based on graph memory and random walkers reinforcement. We think this is a cool paper with applications in neurogenesis and interesting per se from the theoretical point of view. A couple of other papers are coming out soon hopefully, one numerical and one purely analytical on a similar toy model.

The second is a follow up of a previous paper, in collaboration with Fotini, Lorenzo and Arnau. I show that after a quantum quench on a scale free graph, particles are excited according a power law.

The third was instead a wrap up of couple of years-old results obtained when I was at the Max Planck, line of research I do not intend to follow. I think there might be a couple of interesting things there (applications to Lens-Mandel graphs for instance?) to study.

About the upcoming papers.. I should probably wait a bit for details.. but there are a couple of papers with Doyne Farmer and James McNerney on technology evolution, and a third with the group here at QASER. Stay tuned!