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  • Extinction cascades in food-web networks pose a challenge for ecosystem conservation. Sahasrabudhe and Motter use modelling to show that the removal or suppression of a species can compensate for the extinction of another one, and thus, reduce the likelihood of an extinction cascade.

    • Sagar Sahasrabudhe
    • Adilson E. Motter
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 2, P: 1-8

  • Most materials expand along the direction of an external pulling force, but there are no materials that compress instead. The proposal of mechanical metamaterials that show such negative compressibility promises new artificial materials with designed functionalities.

    • Zachary G. Nicolaou
    • Adilson E. Motter
    Research
    Nature Materials
    Volume: 11, P: 608-613

  • This study finds that transmission capacity can be a key bottleneck limiting emissions reduction from US electric vehicle adoption. It shows that coordinated grid upgrades are essential to fully realize the benefits of electrification and renewables.

    • Chao Duan
    • Adilson E. Motter
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-11

  • Inter-individual differences are often viewed as obstacles to flocking and coordination. Here, the authors show that tuning heterogeneity in agent parameters can lead to faster and more robust flocking, even in the presence of communication delays and complex tasks

    • Arthur N. Montanari
    • Ana Elisa D. Barioni
    • Adilson E. Motter
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-14

  • Research on synchronization of coupled oscillators has helped explain how uniform behaviour emerges in populations of non-uniform systems. But explaining how uniform populations engage in 'chimera states' — states of sustainable non-uniform synchronization — may prove to be just as fascinating.

    • Adilson E. Motter
    News & Views
    Nature Physics
    Volume: 6, P: 164-165

  • Spontaneous symmetry breaking can induce instabilities in natural and engineered systems. Nicolaou et al. show that such instabilities can be prevented by introducing suitable system asymmetry in the form of spatial heterogeneity, relevant for the development of novel control and design techniques.

    • Zachary G. Nicolaou
    • Daniel J. Case
    • Adilson E. Motter
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-9

  • An experiment with three alternating-current generators demonstrates converse symmetry breaking—a phenomenon whereby the system achieves frequency synchronization when its component systems are tuned asymmetrically.

    • Ferenc Molnar
    • Takashi Nishikawa
    • Adilson E. Motter
    Research
    Nature Physics
    Volume: 16, P: 351-356

  • Microfluidic systems controlled by a single driving pressure are programmed to exhibit complex flow-switching schemes and a fluid analogue of Braess’s paradox by exploiting fluid inertia and network design.

    • Daniel J. Case
    • Yifan Liu
    • Adilson E. Motter
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 574, P: 647-652

  • Power-grid networks must be synchronized in order to function. A condition for the stability of the synchronous state enables identification of network parameters that enhance spontaneous synchronization—heralding the possibility of smart grids that operate optimally in real-world systems.

    • Adilson E. Motter
    • Seth A. Myers
    • Takashi Nishikawa
    Research
    Nature Physics
    Volume: 9, P: 191-197

  • Nonlinearity is a hallmark of complex networks, but has generally been regarded as an obstacle to controlling their behaviour. Here Cornelius et al.show how nonlinear dynamics can be harnessed to control a network and drive it to desired states.

    • Sean P. Cornelius
    • William L. Kath
    • Adilson E. Motter
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 4, P: 1-9

  • Converse symmetry breaking is a counterintuitive phenomenon in which the system must have an asymmetry to stabilize a symmetric state. Molnar et al. demonstrate this effect in real power-grid networks and show that synchronous operation can be improved by inhomogeneities across power generators.

    • Ferenc Molnar
    • Takashi Nishikawa
    • Adilson E. Motter
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-9

  • Recent studies have shown that complex systems are often best represented by generalized networks such as hypergraphs, multilayer networks, and temporal networks. Here, the authors propose a unified framework to investigate cluster synchronization patterns in generalized networks and demonstrate the existence of chimera states that emerge exclusively in the presence of higher-order interactions.

    • Yuanzhao Zhang
    • Vito Latora
    • Adilson E. Motter
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Physics
    Volume: 4, P: 1-9