The interdependent development of subnational territories and energy transitions deserves greater attention. Territories demarcate spheres of influence, order relations of energy supply and demand, and offer opportunities and restrictions for local energy autonomy. Nevertheless, territorial...

Protein folding is often depicted as a motion along descending paths on a free energy landscape that results in a concurrent decrease in the conformational entropy of the polypeptide chain. However, to provide a description that is consistent with other natural processes, protein folding is...

Despite energy communities' (ECs) large potential to contribute to the energy transition, they are still the exception rather than the rule. Thus, the objective of this study is to elaborate on measures to facilitate the diffusion and integration of ECs in the energy landscape. This is done by...

Simulated Annealing has become a standard optimization technique for a wide variety of problems: starting at a random configuration and performing a sequence of moves, the system is optimized using a control parameter which partially allows for accepting a deterioration and therefore for...

We analyse the relationship between dynamics and configuration space structure of Ising spin glass systems. The exact knowledge of the structure of the low-energy landscape is used to study the relaxation of the system by random walk in the configuration space. The influence of the size of the...

We derive a universal function for the kinetics of complex systems characterized by stretched exponential and/or power-law behaviors. This kinetic function unifies and generalizes previous theoretical attempts to describe what has been called “fractal kinetic”.

We elucidate the statistical mechanical properties of the approval rating time series of several governments from the social dynamics of complex systems and sociophysics points of view. We find that the distribution of approval rating volatility shows exponential independently on nations....

An increasing attention is being payed to the scaling behaviour of stock returns. Several reasons motivate this interest: the assumption of self-affinity is implicit both in the standard financial theory (which states that the self-affinity parameter H equals 1/2) and in less consolidate...

This paper presents the multifractal model of asset returns ("MMAR"), based upon the pioneering research into multifractal measures by Mandelbrot (1972, 1974). The multifractal model incorporates two elements of Mandelbrot's past research that are now well-known in finance. First, the MMAR...