marcos gomes eleuterio da luz

@prppg.ufpr.br

Professor of Physics
Universidade Federal do ParanĂ¡

EDUCATION

PhD in Physics 1995, Unicamp
Bachelor in Physics, 1990, UFPR

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Physics and Astronomy, Multidisciplinary, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Applied Mathematics

9378

Scholar Citations

36

Scholar h-index

94

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Optimal Random Searches: Lvy Walks and Animal Movement
    MGE da Luz, GM Viswanathan, EP Raposo
    Target Search Problems, 687-710 2024

  • Relativistic L\'evy processes
    LGB de Souza, MGE da Luz, EP Raposo, EMF Curado, GM Viswanathan
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.18581 2024

  • Active Displacement of a Unique Diatom–Ciliate Symbiotic Association
    Y Garcia, FM Neves, FR Rusch, LT De La Cruz, ME Wosniack, ...
    Fluids 9 (12), 283 2024

  • Basic Cells Special Features and Their Influence on Global Transport Properties of Long Periodic Structures
    LRN Oliveira, MGE da Luz
    Entropy 26 (11), 942 2024

  • Quantum scattering in one-dimensional periodic structures: A Green's function approach solved through continued fractions
    LRN Oliveira, MGE da Luz
    Physical Review B 110 (5), 054303 2024

  • Correlations in the EPR State Observables
    DF Orsini, LRN Oliveira, MGE da Luz
    Entropy 26 (6), 476 2024

  • Stochastic-like characteristics of arithmetic dynamical systems: the Collatz hailstone sequences
    JG Polli, EP Raposo, GM Viswanathan, MGE da Luz
    Journal of Physics: Complexity 5 (1), 015011 2024

  • Wave amplitude gain within wedge waveguides through scattering by simple obstacles
    AL Azevedo, AC Maioli, F Teston, MR Sales, FM Zanetti, MGE da Luz
    Physical Review E 109 (2), 025303 2024

  • Asymmetric space-dependent systems: partial stabilization through the addition of noise and exact solutions for the corresponding nonlinear Langevin equations
    KS Fa, CL Ho, YB Matos, MGE da Luz
    Physica Scripta 98 (11), 115001 2023

  • Scattering quantum walk framework for two-dimensional materials: The case of honeycomb lattice structures
    BF Venancio, HS Ghizoni, MGE da Luz
    Physical Review B 108 (9), 094303 2023

  • Broad class of nonlinear Langevin equations driven by multiplicative Ornstein–Uhlenbeck noise: Generalized n-moment and generalized second Einstein relation
    KS Fa, S Pianegonda, MGE da Luz
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 622, 128807 2023

  • Control of a qubit under Markovian and non-Markovian noise
    GJ Delben, MW Beims, MGE da Luz
    Physical Review A 108 (1), 012620 2023

  • Plasmodium sporozoite search strategy to locate hotspots of blood vessel invasion
    P Formaglio, ME Wosniack, RM Tromer, JG Polli, YB Matos, H Zhong, ...
    Nature communications 14 (1), 2965 2023

  • Sociophysics: Social collective behavior from the physics point of view
    MGE da Luz, C Anteneodo, N Crokidakis, M Perc
    Chaos Solitons and Fractals 170, 113379 2023

  • Threshold-free estimation of entropy from a Pearson matrix
    H Felippe, A Viol, DB De Araujo, MGE Da Luz, F Palhano-Fontes, H Onias, ...
    Europhysics Letters 141 (3), 31003 2023

  • Lattice thermal conductivity of 2D nanomaterials: a simple semi-empirical approach
    DS Tromer, R. M. and Felix, I. M. and Pereira, L. F. C. and da Luz, M. G. E ...
    Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2023

  • Speedup of the Metropolis protocol via algorithmic optimization
    AE Macias-Medri, GM Viswanathan, CE Fiore, M Koehler, MGE da Luz
    Journal of Computational Science 66, 101910 2023

  • What does it take to solve the 3D Ising model? Minimal necessary conditions for a valid solution
    GM Viswanathan, MAG Portillo, EP Raposo, MGE da Luz
    Entropy 24 (11), 1665 2022

  • Lvy walkers inside spherical shells with absorbing boundaries: Towards settling the optimal Lvy walk strategy for random searches
    LGP Carams, YB Matos, F Bartumeus, CG Bezerra, T Macr, MGE da Luz, ...
    Physical Review E 106 (5), 054147 2022

  • Effect of the search space dimensionality for finding close and faraway targets in random searches
    JR Colao, HA Arajo, MGE da Luz, GM Viswanathan, F Bartumeus, ...
    Physical Review E 106 (3), 034124 2022

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Optimizing the success of random searches
    GM Viswanathan, SV Buldyrev, S Havlin, MGE da Luz, EP Raposo, ...
    nature 401 (6756), 911-914 1999
    Citations: 1829

  • Revisiting Lvy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer
    AM Edwards, RA Phillips, NW Watkins, MP Freeman, EJ Murphy, ...
    Nature 449 (7165), 1044-1048 2007
    Citations: 1076

  • The physics of foraging: an introduction to random searches and biological encounters
    GM Viswanathan, MGE Da Luz, EP Raposo, HE Stanley
    Cambridge University Press 2011
    Citations: 859

  • Animal search strategies: a quantitative random‐walk analysis
    F Bartumeus, MGE da Luz, GM Viswanathan, J Catalan
    Ecology 86 (11), 3078-3087 2005
    Citations: 847

  • Lvy flights and superdiffusion in the context of biological encounters and random searches
    GM Viswanathan, EP Raposo, MGE Da Luz
    Physics of Life Reviews 5 (3), 133-150 2008
    Citations: 558

  • Foraging success of biological Lvy flights recorded in situ
    NE Humphries, H Weimerskirch, N Queiroz, EJ Southall, DW Sims
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (19), 7169-7174 2012
    Citations: 428

  • Lvy flights in random searches
    GM Viswanathan, V Afanasyev, SV Buldyrev, S Havlin, MGE da Luz, ...
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 282 (1-2), 1-12 2000
    Citations: 344

  • Average time spent by Lvy flights and walks on an interval with absorbing boundaries
    SV Buldyrev, S Havlin, AY Kazakov, MGE da Luz, EP Raposo, HE Stanley, ...
    Physical Review E 64 (4), 041108 2001
    Citations: 168

  • Lvy flight random searches in biological phenomena
    GM Viswanathan, F Bartumeus, SV Buldyrev, J Catalan, UL Fulco, ...
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications 314 (1-4), 208-213 2002
    Citations: 162

  • Dynamical robustness of Lvy search strategies
    EP Raposo, SV Buldyrev, MGE Da Luz, MC Santos, HE Stanley, ...
    Physical review letters 91 (24), 240601 2003
    Citations: 145

  • The influence of turning angles on the success of non-oriented animal searches
    F Bartumeus, J Catalan, GM Viswanathan, EP Raposo, MGE Da Luz
    Journal of theoretical biology 252 (1), 43-55 2008
    Citations: 138

  • Lvy flights search patterns of biological organisms
    GM Viswanathan, V Afanasyev, SV Buldyrev, S Havlin, MGE Da Luz, ...
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 295 (1-2), 85-88 2001
    Citations: 109

  • Survival in patchy landscapes: the interplay between dispersal, habitat loss and fragmentation
    BBS Niebuhr, ME Wosniack, MC Santos, EP Raposo, GM Viswanathan, ...
    Scientific reports 5 (1), 11898 2015
    Citations: 104

  • Necessary criterion for distinguishing true superdiffusion from correlated random walk processes
    GM Viswanathan, EP Raposo, F Bartumeus, J Catalan, MGE Da Luz
    Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 72 (1 2005
    Citations: 100

  • The evolutionary origins of Lvy walk foraging
    ME Wosniack, MC Santos, EP Raposo, GM Viswanathan, MGE Da Luz
    PLoS computational biology 13 (10), e1005774 2017
    Citations: 99

  • Lvy flights and random searches
    EP Raposo, SV Buldyrev, MGE Da Luz, GM Viswanathan, HE Stanley
    Journal of Physics A: mathematical and theoretical 42 (43), 434003 2009
    Citations: 87

  • Properties of Lvy flights on an interval with absorbing boundaries
    SV Buldyrev, M Gitterman, S Havlin, AY Kazakov, MGE Da Luz, ...
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 302 (1-4), 148-161 2001
    Citations: 86

  • Optimal random searches of revisitable targets: crossover from superdiffusive to ballistic random walks
    MC Santos, EP Raposo, GM Viswanathan, MGE Da Luz
    Europhysics Letters 67 (5), 734 2004
    Citations: 78

  • Stochastic optimal foraging: tuning intensive and extensive dynamics in random searches
    F Bartumeus, EP Raposo, GM Viswanathan, MGE da Luz
    PloS one 9 (9), e106373 2014
    Citations: 75

  • The influence of the environment on Lvy random search efficiency: fractality and memory effects
    AS Ferreira, EP Raposo, GM Viswanathan, MGE Da Luz
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (11), 3234-3246 2012
    Citations: 70