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SUBMITTER: Wintermantel TM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7782709 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20210104 1
Whether it be physical, biological or social processes, complex systems exhibit dynamics that are exceedingly difficult to understand or predict from underlying principles. Here we report a striking correspondence between the excitation dynamics of a laser driven gas of Rydberg atoms and the spreading of diseases, which in turn opens up a controllable platform for studying non-equilibrium dynamics on complex networks. The competition between facilitated excitation and spontaneous decay results i ...[more]