Pablo Villegas

Publications

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Research highlights & commentary
Uncovering Networks in Rainforest Plants
2024 · Physics 17, 68 · Commentary by Philip Ball
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A zoom lens for networks
2023 · Nature Physics 19, 318-319 · News & Views by Konstantin Klemm
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Journal Articles
Topological protection breakdown: A route to frustrated ferroelectricity
2025 · Phys. Rev. Research 7, 043038 · L. Falsi, P. Villegas, T. Gili, A. J. Agranat & E. DelRe
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Strange attractors in complex networks
2025 · Phys. Rev. E 111, L042301 · P. Villegas
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Networks with many structural scales: a Renormalization Group perspective
2025 · Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 057401 · A. Poggialini, P. Villegas, M. A. Muñoz & A. Gabrielli
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Multi-scale Laplacian community detection in heterogeneous networks
2025 · Phys. Rev. Research 7, 013065 · P. Villegas, A. Gabrielli, A. Poggialini & T. Gili
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Laplacian renormalization group: an introduction to heterogeneous coarse-graining
2024 · Phys. Rev. E 109, L042402 · G. Caldarelli, A. Gabrielli, T. Gili & P. Villegas
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Evidence of scale-free clusters of vegetation in tropical rainforests
2024 · Phys. Rev. E 109, L042402 · P. Villegas, T. Gili, G. Caldarelli & A. Gabrielli · Editor’s suggestion; featured in Physics 17 (2024): 68
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Laplacian Renormalization Group for heterogeneous networks
2023 · Nat. Phys. 19, 445-450 · P. Villegas, T. Gili, G. Caldarelli & A. Gabrielli · March issue cover; featured in News & Views
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Laplacian paths in complex networks: information core emerges from entropic transitions
2022 · Phys. Rev. Research 4, 033196 · P. Villegas, A. Gabrielli, F. Santucci, G. Caldarelli & T. Gili
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Characterizing spatial point processes by percolation transitions
2022 · J. Stat. Mech. 073202 · P. Villegas, T. Gili, A. Gabrielli & G. Caldarelli
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The broad edge of synchronization: Griffiths effects and collective phenomena in brain networks
2022 · Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 380: 20200424 · V. Buendía, P. Villegas, R. Burioni & M. A. Muñoz
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Marginal speed confinement resolves the conflict between correlation and control in natural flocks of birds
2022 · Nat. Commun. 13, 2315 · A. Cavagna, A. Culla, X. Feng, I. Giardina, T. S. Grigera, W. Kion-Crosby, S. Melillo, G. Pisegna, L. Postiglione & P. Villegas
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Emergent spatial patterns of coexistence in species-rich plant communities
2021 · Phys. Rev. E 104, 034305 · P. Villegas, T. Gili & G. Caldarelli
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Hybrid-type synchronization transitions: Where incipient oscillations, scale-free avalanches, and bistability live together
2021 · Phys. Rev. Research 3(2), 023224 · V. Buendía, P. Villegas, R. Burioni & M. A. Muñoz
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CoMo: A novel co-moving 3D camera system
2021 · IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. 70, 1-16 · A. Cavagna, X. Feng, S. Melillo, L. Parisi, L. Postiglione & P. Villegas
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Joint assessment of density correlations and fluctuations for analysing spatial tree patterns
2021 · R. Soc. Open Sci. 8(1), 202200 · P. Villegas, A. Cavagna, M. Cencini, H. Fort & T. S. Griguera
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Self-organized bistability and its possible relevance for brain dynamics
2020 · Phys. Rev. Research 2, 013318 · V. Buendía, S. di Santo, P. Villegas, R. Burioni & M. A. Muñoz
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Evolution in the Debian GNU/Linux software network: analogies and differences with gene regulatory networks
2020 · J. R. Soc. Interface 17(163), 20190845 · P. Villegas, M. A. Muñoz & J. A. Bonachela
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Jensen’s force and the statistical mechanics of cortical asynchronous states
2019 · Sci. Rep. 9, 15183 · V. Buendía, P. Villegas, S. di Santo, A. Vezzani, R. Burioni & M. A. Muñoz
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Time-series thresholding and the definition of avalanche size
2019 · Phys. Rev. E 100, 012133 · P. Villegas, S. di Santo, R. Burioni & M. A. Muñoz
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Non-normality, reactivity, and intrinsic stochasticity in neural dynamics: a non-equilibrium potential approach
2018 · J. Stat. Mech. Theory Exp. 2018(7), 073402 · S. di Santo, P. Villegas, R. Burioni & M. A. Muñoz
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Landau-Ginzburg theory of cortex dynamics: scale-free avalanches emerge at the edge of synchronization
2018 · Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 115(7), E1356-E1365 · S. di Santo*, P. Villegas*, R. Burioni & M. A. Muñoz · *Joint first authors
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Simple unified view of branching process statistics: Random walks in balanced logarithmic potentials
2017 · Phys. Rev. E 95(3), 032115 · S. di Santo, P. Villegas, R. Burioni & M. A. Muñoz
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Intrinsic noise and deviations from criticality in Boolean gene-regulatory networks
2016 · Sci. Rep. 6, 34743 · P. Villegas, J. M. Ruiz, J. Hidalgo & M. A. Muñoz
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Complex synchronization patterns in the human connectome network
2016 · Proceedings of ECCS 2014, pp. 69-80 · P. Villegas, J. Hidalgo, P. Moretti & M. A. Muñoz
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Interfacial depinning transitions in disordered media: revisiting an old puzzle
2014 · J. Stat. Mech. Theory Exp. 2014(10), P10024 · B. Moglia, E. Albano, P. Villegas & M. A. Muñoz
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Frustrated hierarchical synchronization and emergent complexity in the human connectome network
2014 · Sci. Rep. 4, 5990 · P. Villegas, P. Moretti & M. A. Muñoz
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Preprints & Under Review
Structural coarse-graining enables noise-robust functional connectivity and reveals hidden inter-subject variability
2026 · I. Fernandez-Iriondo, A. Jimenez-Marin, J. Cortes & P. Villegas
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Unveiling the Dimensionality of Networks of Networks
2025 · L. Grimaldi, P. Villegas, A. Vezzani, R. Burioni, D. Cassi & A. Gabrielli
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Non-normal Dynamics on Non-reciprocal Networks: Reactivity and Effective Dimensionality in Neural Circuits
2025 · A. Poggialini, S. di Santo, P. Villegas, A. Gabrielli & M. A. Muñoz
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Geometric Criticality in Scale-Invariant Networks
2025 · L. Lucarini, G. Cimini & P. Villegas
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Chladni states in Ising Spin Lattices
2025 · G. Iannelli & P. Villegas
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Topological Symmetry Breaking in Antagonistic Dynamics
2025 · G. Iannelli, P. Villegas, T. Gili & A. Gabrielli
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Higher-order contagion processes in 3.99 dimensions
2025 · S. Meloni, A. Gabrielli & P. Villegas
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Opinion & essays
La asfixia de la universidad española: signo de un problema estructural
2019 · El Salto Diario
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