TY - JOUR
T1 - Controlling complex networks
T2 - How much energy is needed?
AU - Yan, Gang
AU - Ren, Jie
AU - Lai, Ying-Cheng
AU - Lai, Choy Heng
AU - Li, Baowen
PY - 2012/5/23
Y1 - 2012/5/23
N2 - The outstanding problem of controlling complex networks is relevant to many areas of science and engineering, and has the potential to generate technological breakthroughs as well. We address the physically important issue of the energy required for achieving control by deriving and validating scaling laws for the lower and upper energy bounds. These bounds represent a reasonable estimate of the energy cost associated with control, and provide a step forward from the current research on controllability toward ultimate control of complex networked dynamical systems.
AB - The outstanding problem of controlling complex networks is relevant to many areas of science and engineering, and has the potential to generate technological breakthroughs as well. We address the physically important issue of the energy required for achieving control by deriving and validating scaling laws for the lower and upper energy bounds. These bounds represent a reasonable estimate of the energy cost associated with control, and provide a step forward from the current research on controllability toward ultimate control of complex networked dynamical systems.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.218703
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.218703
M3 - Article
C2 - 23003312
AN - SCOPUS:84861603156
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 108
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 21
M1 - 218703
ER -