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        <pubDate>2026-04-27T23:36:14.422+00:00</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Effect of quenched disorder on the absorbing transition in contact processes on a comb lattice]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-11-21T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Priyanka D. Bhoyar</author><author>Prashant M. Gade</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Power-law behavior frequently emerges in physical, biological, and social systems, particularly near continuous phase transitions characterized by diverging correlation lengths and universal scaling. The contact process is a prototypical model for studying absorbing-state phase transitions, typically belonging to the directed percolation (DP) universality class in its clean form. In this study, we investigate how quenched disorder influences the absorbing-state transition of the contact process on a one-dimensional comb lattice, a minimal geometry that incorporates structural inhomogeneity while remaining analytically and computationally tractable. In our model, activity spreads over a fraction of the branches q and is blocked in the rest. Without disorder, the system belongs to the directed percolation (DP) universality class. Introducing quenched disorder leads to significant changes in the critical dynamics. For q≤0.15, the system develops a Griffiths phase characterized by algebraic decay away from the critical point and logarithmic scaling at criticality, indicating a transition to the activated scaling universality class. In contrast, for q>0.15, the contact process on the comb lattice shows power-law decay of the order parameter only at the critical point, demonstrating a clean transition with standard critical dynamics and no extended Griffiths region. The results show that quenched disorder induces non-universal slow dynamics for small q, while larger values of q suppress the disorder-driven effects, restoring standard DP-like criticality. This transition underscores the role of lattice geometry and disorder strength in shaping nonequilibrium phase transitions.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A priori physical information to aid generalization capabilities of neural networks for hydraulic modeling]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-01-06T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Gianmarco Guglielmo</author><author>Andrea Montessori</author><author>Jean-Michel Tucny</author><author>Michele La Rocca</author><author>Pietro Prestininzi</author>
        <description><![CDATA[The application of Neural Networks to river hydraulics and flood mapping is fledgling, despite the field suffering from data scarcity, a challenge for machine learning techniques. Consequently, many purely data-driven Neural Networks have shown limited capabilities when tasked with predicting new scenarios. In this work, we propose introducing physical information into the training phase in the form of a regularization term. Whereas this idea is formally borrowed from Physics-Informed Neural Networks, the proposed methodology does not necessarily resort to PDEs, making it suitable for scenarios with significant epistemic uncertainties, such as river hydraulics. The method enriches the information content of the dataset and appears highly versatile. It shows improved predictive capabilities for a highly controllable, synthetic hydraulic problem, even when extrapolating beyond the boundaries of the training dataset and in data-scarce scenarios. Therefore, our study lays the groundwork for future employment on real datasets from complex applications.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Synchronization of two electrochemical oscillators in a closed bipolar cell]]></title>
        <pubdate>2024-04-18T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>John A. Tetteh</author><author>István Z. Kiss</author>
        <description><![CDATA[We investigate the dynamical behavior of the oscillatory electrodissolution of nickel and hydrogen reduction reaction in a closed electrochemical bipolar cell with two nickel wires. In the bipolar setup, two-half U cells are separated by an epoxy plate with the two embedded nickel electrodes; the oxidation and reduction reactions take place at the two ends of the same wire. The electrode potential oscillations were found to be strongly synchronized with 1 mm diameter electrodes in an in-phase configuration. Because experiments in similar configurations with traditional (three-electrode) cell showed no synchronization of the oscillatory anodic nickel electrodissolution, the introduction of the cathodic side of the bipolar electrodes induced the synchronization. The results were interpreted with a model that considered the kinetically coupled cathode-anode dynamics as well as interactions on the cathode and the anode side through migration current mediated potential drops in the electrolyte. The electrical coupling strength was calculated from solution resistance and charge transfer resistance measurements. The theory correctly interpreted that the bipolar cell with large (1 mm diameter) electrodes exhibits strong coupling with synchronization, and the bipolar cell with small (0.25 mm diameter) electrodes and the traditional configuration exhibit weak coupling and thus desynchronization. The experiments demonstrate the use of bipolar electrochemical cells for the investigation of collective behavior of electrochemical processes and the proposed approach holds promise for the design of bipolar multi-electrode arrays with engineered coupling to promote sensing and information processing using microchips.]]></description>
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