List of Publications
I have published 99 articles/preprints
2024
- City mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic: analysis of a global natural experiment
Ruth F Hunter, Selin Akaraci, Ruoyu Wang, Rodrigo Reis, Pedro C Hallal, Sandy Pentland, Christopher Millett, Leandro Garcia, Jason Thompson, Kerry Nice, Belen Zapata-Diomedi, Esteban Moro
The Lancet Public Health 9 e896–e906 (2024)
PDF Journal - Residential and experienced social segregation: the roles of different transport modes, metro extensions, and longitudinal changes in Hong Kong
Becky PY Loo, Zhuangyuan Fan, Esteban Moro
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11 1–13 (2024)
PDF Journal - The great equalizer? Mixed effects of social infrastructure on diverse encounters in cities
Timothy Fraser, Takahiro Yabe, Daniel P. Aldrich, Esteban Moro
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 113 102173 (2024)
PDF Journal - YJMob100K: City-scale and longitudinal dataset of anonymized human mobility trajectories
Takahiro Yabe, Kota Tsubouchi, Toru Shimizu, Yoshihide Sekimoto, Kaoru Sezaki, Esteban Moro, Alex Pentland
Scientific Data 11 397 (2024)
PDF Journal - Effect of mobile food environments on fast food visits
Bernardo Garcia-Bulle, Abigail L Horn, Brooke M Bell, Mohsen Bahrami, Burcin Bozkaya, Alex Pentland, Kayla de la Haye, Esteban Moro
Nature Communications 15 2291 (2024)
PDF Journal - Infrequent activities predict economic outcomes in major American cities
Shenhao Wang, Yunhan Zheng, Guang Wang, Takahiro Yabe, Esteban Moro, Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland
Nature Cities 1 305–314 (2024)
PDF Journal - Network constraints on worker mobility
Morgan R Frank, Esteban Moro, Tobin South, Alex Rutherford, Alex Pentland, Bledi Taska, Iyad Rahwan
Nature Cities 1 94–104 (2024)
PDF Journal - Temporal clustering of social interactions trades-off disease spreading and knowledge diffusion
Giulia Cencetti, Lorenzo Lucchini, Gabriele Santin, Federico Battiston, Esteban Moro, Alex Pentland, Bruno Lepri
Journal of the Royal Society Interface 21 20230471 (2024)
PDF Journal - Long-range social influence in phone communication networks on offline adoption decisions
Yan Leng, Xiaowen Dong, Esteban Moro, Alex Pentland
Information Systems Research 35 318–338 (2024)
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2023
- Population mobility data provides meaningful indicators of fast food intake and diet-related diseases in diverse populations
Abigail L. Horn, Brooke M. Bell, Bernardo Garcia Bulle Bueno, Mohsen Bahrami, Burcin Bozkaya, Yan Cui, John P. Wilson, Alex Pentland, Esteban Moro, Kayla de la Haye
NPJ Digital Medicine 6 208 (2023)
PDF Journal - The unequal effects of the health–economy trade-off during the COVID-19 pandemic
Marco Pangallo, Alberto Aleta, R. Maria del Rio-Chanona, Anton Pichler, David Martin-Corral, Matteo Chinazzi, Francois Lafond, Marco Ajelli, Esteban Moro, Yamir Moreno, Alessandro Vespignani, J. Doyne Farmer
Nature Human Behaviour NA 1–12 (2023)
PDF Journal - Home-to-school pedestrian mobility GPS data from a citizen science experiment in the Barcelona area
Ferran Larroya, Ofelia Diaz, Oleguer Sagarra, Pol Colomer Simon, Salva Ferre, Esteban Moro, Josep Perello
Scientific data 10 428 (2023)
PDF Journal - Identifying latent activity behaviors and lifestyles using mobility data to describe urban dynamics
Yanni Yang, Alex Pentland, Esteban Moro
EPJ Data Science 12 15 (2023)
PDF Journal - Behavioral changes during the COVID-19 pandemic decreased income diversity of urban encounters
Takahiro Yabe, Bernardo Garcia Bulle Bueno, Xiaowen Dong, Alex Pentland, Esteban Moro
Nature Communications 14 2310 (2023)
PDF Journal - Diversity beyond density: experienced social mixing of urban streets
Zhuangyuan Fan, Tianyu Su, Maoran Sun, Ariel Noyman, Fan Zhang, Alex `Sandy’ Pentland, Esteban Moro
PNAS Nexus 2 pgad077 (2023)
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2022
- Rhythm of the streets: a street classification framework based on street activity patterns
Tianyu Su, Maoran Sun, Zhuangyuan Fan, Ariel Noyman, Alex Pentland, Esteban Moro
EPJ Data Science 11 43 (2022)
PDF Journal - Quantifying the importance and location of SARS-CoV-2 transmission events in large metropolitan areas
Alberto Aleta, David Martin-Corral, Michiel A. Bakker, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Marco Ajelli, Maria Litvinova, Matteo Chinazzi, Natalie E. Dean, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M. Longini, Alex Pentland, Alessandro Vespignani, Yamir Moreno, Esteban Moro
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 e2112182119 (2022)
PDF Journal - Generating synthetic mobility data for a realistic population with RNNs to improve utility and privacy
Alex Berke, Ronan Doorley, Kent Larson, Esteban Moro
In Proceedings of the 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (2022)
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2021
- News or social media? Socio-economic divide of mobile service consumption
Inaki Ucar, Marco Gramaglia, Marco Fiore, Zbigniew Smoreda, Esteban Moro
Journal of the Royal Society Interface 18 20210350 (2021)
PDF Journal - Mobility patterns are associated with experienced income segregation in large US cities
Esteban Moro, Dan Calacci, Xiaowen Dong, Alex Pentland
Nature Communications 12 4633 (2021)
PDF Journal - Accuracy-Risk Trade-Off Due to Social Learning in Crowd-Sourced Financial Predictions
Dhaval Adjodah, Yan Leng, Shi Kai Chong, P. M. Krafft, Esteban Moro, Alex Pentland
Entropy 23 801 (2021)
PDF Journal - Effect of COVID-19 response policies on walking behavior in US cities
Ruth F. Hunter, Leandro Garcia, Thiago Herick de Sa, Belen Zapata-Diomedi, Christopher Millett, James Woodcock, Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, Esteban Moro
Nature Communications 12 3652 (2021)
PDF Journal - Universal resilience patterns in labor markets
Esteban Moro, Morgan R. Frank, Alex Pentland, Alex Rutherford, Manuel Cebrian, Iyad Rahwan
Nature Communications 12 1972 (2021)
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2020
- Leveraging Communication Topologies Between Learning Agents in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Dhaval Adjodah, Dan Calacci, Abhimanyu Dubey, Anirudh Goyal, PM Krafft, Esteban Moro, Alex Pentland
In AAMAS (2020)
PDF Proceedings - Methods and apparatus for communication network
Dhaval Adjodah, Alex Paul Pentland, Esteban Moro, Yan Leng, Peter Krafft, Daniel Calacci, Abhimanyu Dubey
Patent 2020
PDF Google Patents - Segregated interactions in urban and online space
Xiaowen Dong, Alfredo J. Morales, Eaman Jahani, Esteban Moro, Bruno Lepri, Burcin Bozkaya, Carlos Sarraute, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Alex Pentland
EPJ Data Science 9 20 (2020)
PDF Journal - Modelling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19
Alberto Aleta, David Martin-Corral, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Marco Ajelli, Maria Litvinova, Matteo Chinazzi, Natalie E. Dean, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M. Longini Jr, Stefano Merler, Alex Pentland, Alessandro Vespignani, Esteban Moro, Yamir Moreno
Nature Human Behaviour 4 964–971 (2020)
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2019
- Towards a new social laboratory: An experimental study of search through community participation at Burning Man
Ziv Epstein, Micah Epstein, Christian Almenar, Matt Groh, Niccolo Pescetelli, Esteban Moro, Nick Obradovich, Manuel Cebrian, Iyad Rahwan
Preprint (2019)
PDF arXiv - How to Hide One’s Relationships from Link Prediction Algorithms
Marcin Waniek, Kai Zhou, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Esteban Moro, Tomasz P Michalak, Talal Rahwan
Scientific Reports 9 12208 (2019)
PDF Journal - Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor
Morgan R Frank, David Autor, James E Bessen, Erik Brynjolfsson, Manuel Cebrian, David J Deming, Maryann Feldman, Matthew Groh, Jose Lobo, Esteban Moro, Dashun Wang, Hyejin Youn, Iyad Rahwan
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 6531–6539 (2019)
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2018
- How to Organize your Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents: The Importance of Communication Topology
Dhaval Adjodah, Dan Calacci, Abhimanyu Dubey, Peter Krafft, Esteban Moro, Alex Sandy Pentland
Preprint (2018)
PDF arXiv - ScamCoins, S*** Posters, and the Search for the Next Bitcoin TM : Collective Sensemaking in Cryptocurrency Discussions
Eaman Jahani, Peter M Krafft, Yoshihiko Suhara, Esteban Moro, Alex Sandy Pentland
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2 79, 1–28 (2018)
PDF Journal - Analyzing gender inequality through large-scale Facebook advertising data
David Garcia, Yonas Mitike Kassa, Angel Cuevas, Manuel Cebrian, Esteban Moro, Iyad Rahwan, Ruben Cuevas
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences 115 6958–6963 (2018)
PDF Journal - Weather impacts expressed sentiment
Patrick Baylis, Nick Obradovich, Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen, Lorenzo Coviello, Esteban Moro, Manuel Cebrian, James H Fowler
PLoS ONE 13 e0195750 (2018)
PDF Journal - MemeSequencer: Sparse Matching for Embedding Image Macros
Abhimanyu Dubey, Esteban Moro, Manuel Cebrian, Iyad Rahwan
In Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference on World Wide Web - WWW ’18 (2018)
PDF Proceedings - The Rippling Effect of Social Influence via Phone Communication Network
Yan Leng, Xiaowen Dong, Esteban Moro, Alex SandyPentland
In Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems (2018)
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2017
- Temporal patterns behind the strength of persistent ties
Henry Navarro, Giovanna Miritello, Arturo Canales, Esteban Moro
EPJ Data Science 6 97 (2017)
PDF Journal - Differential network effects on economic outcomes: A structural perspective
Eaman Jahani, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Pal Sundsoy, Johannes Bjelland, Esteban Moro, Alex Sandy Pentland
In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (2017)
PDF Proceedings - Improved Learning in Evolution Strategies via Sparser Inter-Agent Network Topologies.
Dhaval Adjodah, Dan Calacci, Yan Leng, Peter Krafft, Esteban Moro, Alex Pentland
Preprint (2017)
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2016
- Rapid assessment of disaster damage using social media activity
Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen, Nick Obradovich, Esteban Moro, Pascal Van Hentenryck, James Fowler, Manuel Cebrian
Science Advances 2 e1500779 (2016)
PDF Journal - Twitter session analytics: Profiling usersshort-term behavioral changes
Farshad Kooti, Esteban Moro, Kristina Lerman
In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (2016)
PDF Proceedings - Channel-Specific Daily Patterns in Mobile Phone Communication
Talayeh Aledavood, Eduardo Lopez, Sam G B Roberts, Felix Reed-Tsochas, Esteban Moro, Robin I M Dunbar, Jari Saramaki
In Proceedings of ECCS 2014 (2016)
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2015
- Fully nonlinear dynamics of stochastic thin-film dewetting.
S Nesic, R Cuerno, E Moro, L Kondic
Physical review E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 92 061002 (2015)
PDF Journal - From seconds to months: an overview of multi-scale dynamics of mobile telephone calls
Jari Saramaki, Esteban Moro
European Physical Journal B 88 164 (2015)
PDF Journal - Social Media Fingerprints of Unemployment
Alejandro Llorente, Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Manuel Cebrian, Esteban Moro
PLoS ONE 10 e0128692 (2015)
PDF Journal - Big data versus small data: the case of `gripe’(flu) in Spanish
Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, Esteban Moro
Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences 198 339–343 (2015)
PDF Journal - Nowcasting Disaster Damage
Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen, Nick Obradovich, Esteban Moro, Pascal Van Hentenryck, James Fowler, Manuel Cebrian
Preprint (2015)
PDF arXiv - Dynamics of thin fluid films controlled by thermal fluctuations
S Nesic, R Cuerno, E Moro, L Kondic
European Physical Journal: Special Topics 224 379–387 (2015)
PDF Journal - Daily Rhythms in Mobile Telephone Communication.
Talayeh Aledavood, Eduardo Lopez, Sam G B Roberts, Felix Reed-Tsochas, Esteban Moro, Robin I M Dunbar, Jari Saramaki
PLoS ONE 10 e0138098– (2015)
PDF Journal - Performance of social network sensors during Hurricane Sandy
Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen, Esteban Moro, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Manuel Cebrian
PLoS one 10 e0117288 (2015)
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2014
- Macroscopic response to microscopic intrinsic noise in three-dimensional Fisher fronts.
S Nesic, R Cuerno, E Moro
Physical Review Letters 113 180602 (2014)
PDF Journal - Using friends as sensors to detect global-scale contagious outbreaks.
Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Esteban Moro, Manuel Cebrian, Nicholas A Christakis, James H Fowler
PLoS ONE 9 e92413– (2014)
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2013
- Time allocation in social networks: correlation between social structure and human communication dynamics
Giovanna Miritello, Ruben Lara, Esteban Moro
In Temporal networks (2013)
PDF Chapter - Limits of social mobilization
Alex Rutherford, Manuel Cebrian, Sohan D’souza, Esteban Moro, Alex Pentland, Iyad Rahwan
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 110 6281–6286 (2013)
PDF Journal - Limited communication capacity unveils strategies for human interaction.
Giovanna Miritello, Ruben Lara, Manuel Cebrian, Esteban Moro
Scientific Reports 3 1950 (2013)
PDF Journal - The predictability of consumer visitation patterns.
Coco Krumme, Alejandro Llorente, Manuel Cebrian, Alex Sandy Pentland, Esteban Moro
Scientific Reports 3 1645 (2013)
PDF Journal - Time as a limited resource - Communication strategy in mobile phone networks.
Giovanna Miritello, Esteban Moro, Ruben Lara, Rocio Martinez-Lopez, John Belchamber, Sam G B Roberts, Robin I M Dunbar
Social Networks 35 89–95 (2013)
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2012
- Predicting Human Preferences Using the Block Structure of Complex Social Networks
Roger Guimera, Alejandro Llorente, Esteban Moro, Marta Sales-Pardo
PLoS ONE 7 e44620 (2012)
PDF Journal - Agent-specific impact of single trades in financial markets
Alex J Bladon, Esteban Moro, Tobias Galla
Physical review E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 85 036103 (2012)
PDF Journal - Social Features of Online Networks: The Strength of Intermediary Ties in Online Social Media
Przemyslaw A Grabowicz, Jose J. Ramasco, Esteban Moro, Josep M Pujol, Victor M Eguiluz
PLoS ONE 7 e29358 (2012)
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2011
- Branching dynamics of viral information spreading
Jose Luis Iribarren, Esteban Moro
Physical Review E 84 046116 (2011)
PDF Journal - Individual impact of agent actions in financial markets
Alex J Bladon, Esteban Moro, Tobias Galla
Preprint (2011)
PDF arXiv - Affinity Paths and information diffusion in social networks
Jose Luis Iribarren, Esteban Moro
Social Networks 33 134–142 (2011)
PDF Journal - Dynamical strength of social ties in information spreading
Giovanna Miritello, Esteban Moro, Ruben Lara
Physical Review E 83 045102 (2011)
PDF Journal - Twitter y pol': Informaci'on, opini'on y 'on?
M L Congosto, M Fernandez, E Moro
Cuadernos Evoca NA NA (2011)
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2009
- Market impact and trading profile of hidden orders in stock markets.
Esteban Moro, Javier Vicente, Luis G Moyano, Austin Gerig, J Doyne Farmer, Gabriella Vaglica, Fabrizio Lillo, Rosario N Mantegna
Physical review E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 80 066102 (2009)
PDF Journal - Impact of human activity patterns on the dynamics of information diffusion.
Jose Luis Iribarren, Esteban Moro
Physical Review Letters 103 038702 (2009)
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2008
- Specialization and herding behavior of trading firms in a financial market
Fabrizio Lillo, Esteban Moro, Gabriella Vaglica, Rosario N Mantegna
New Journal of Physics 10 043019 (2008)
PDF Journal - Scaling laws of strategic behavior and size heterogeneity in agent dynamics.
Gabriella Vaglica, Fabrizio Lillo, Esteban Moro, Rosario N Mantegna
Physical review E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 77 036110 (2008)
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2007
- Boundary preserving semianalytic numerical algorithms for stochastic differential equations
Esteban Moro, Henri Schurz
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 29 1525–1549 (2007)
PDF Journal - Information diffusion epidemics in social networks
Jose Luis Iribarren, Esteban Moro
Preprint (2007)
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2006
- Single tensionless transition in the Laplacian roughening model
Juan Jesus Ruiz-Lorenzo, Esteban Moro, Rodolfo Cuerno
Physical Review E 73 015103 (2006)
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2005
- Spreading of viscous fluid drops on a solid substrate assisted by thermal fluctuations.
Benny Davidovitch, Esteban Moro, Howard A Stone
Physical Review Letters 95 244505 (2005)
PDF Journal - Non-negativity preserving numerical algorithms for stochastic differential equations
Esteban Moro, Henri Schurz
Preprint (2005)
PDF arXiv - Phase transition in tensionless surfaces
J J Ruiz-Lorenzo, R Cuerno, E Moro, A Sanchez
In Biophysical Chemistry (2005)
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2004
- Numerical schemes for continuum models of reaction-diffusion systems subject to internal noise
Esteban Moro
Physical review E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 70 045102 (2004)
PDF Journal - The minority game: an introductory guide
Esteban Moro
Advances in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics NA 263–286 (2004)
PDF Journal - Hybrid method for simulating front propagation in reaction-diffusion systems
Esteban Moro
Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics 69 4 (2004)
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2003
- Emergence of pulled fronts in fermionic microscopic particle models.
Esteban Moro
Physical review E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 68 025102 (2003)
PDF Journal - Defect formation in the Swift-Hohenberg equation.
Tobias Galla, Esteban Moro
Physical review E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 67 035101 (2003)
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2002
- Statistical physics of induced correlation in a simple market
David Sherrington, Esteban Moro, Juan Pedro Garrahan
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 311 527–535 (2002)
PDF Journal - Microscopic model for thin film spreading.
Douglas B Abraham, Rodolfo Cuerno, Esteban Moro
Physical Review Letters 88 206101–2061014 (2002)
PDF Journal - Transition from ferromagnetism to superparamagnetism on the nanosecond time scale
L Lopez-Diaz, L Torres, E Moro
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 65 1–10 (2002)
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2001
- Dynamic renormalization group study of a generalized continuum model of crystalline surfaces
Rodolfo Cuerno, Esteban Moro
Physical Review E 65 016110 (2001)
PDF Journal - Internal fluctuations effects on Fisher waves.
E Moro
Physical Review Letters 87 238303–1–238303–4 (2001)
PDF Journal - Variational mean-field study of a continuum model of crystalline tensionless surfaces.
E Moro, R Cuerno
Physical review E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 63 036104 (2001)
PDF Journal - Micromagnetics of thermally activated switching in nonuniformly magnetized nanodots
L Torres, L Lopez-Diaz, E Moro, C De Francisco, O Alejos
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 226-230 1242–1244 (2001)
PDF Journal - Correlated adaptation of agents in a simple market: A statistical physics perspective
J P Garrahan, E Moro, D Sherrington
Quantitative Finance 1 246–253 (2001)
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2000
- Statistical physics of adaptive correlation of agents in a market
David Sherrington, Juan P Garrahan, Esteban Moro
Preprint (2000)
PDF arXiv - Roughening and super-roughening in the ordered and random two-dimensional sine-gordon models
A Sanchez, AR Bishop, E Moro
Physical Review E 62 3219–3229 (2000)
PDF Journal - Continuous time dynamics of the thermal minority game
JP Garrahan, E Moro, D Sherrington
Physical Review E 62 R9–R12 (2000)
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1999
- Analytical results for a continuum model of crystalline tensionless surfaces. I. Variational mean field study
Esteban Moro, Rodolfo Cuerno
Preprint (1999)
PDF arXiv - The effect of thermal activation on the coercivity of domain walls
L Lopez-Diaz, E Della Torre, E Moro
Journal of Applied Physics 85 4367–4369 (1999)
PDF Journal - Dynamics of defect formation
Esteban Moro, Grant Lythe
Physical Review E 59 R1303–R1306 (1999)
PDF Journal - Stochastic vortex dynamics in two-dimensional easy-plane ferromagnets: multiplicative versus additive noise
Till Kamppeter, Esteban Moro, A R Bishop, F Mertens, Angel Sanchez
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 59 11349–11357 (1999)
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1998
- Noise effects on synchronized globally coupled oscillators
E Moro, A Sanchez
Epl 44 409–415 (1998)
PDF Journal - Crystalline lattice effects on tensionless surface dynamics
Esteban Moro, Rodolfo Cuerno, Angel Sanchez
Microelectronic Engineering 43-44 497–505 (1998)
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1997
- Growth Dynamics of Crystalline Tensionless Surfaces
Esteban Moro, Rodolfo Cuerno, Angel Sanchez
Physical Review Letters 78 4982–4985 (1997)
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