Leader of the Complex Systems Group and affiliate of the Center of Nonlinear Studies
at the Theoretical Division in Los Alamos National Laboratory, Eli Ben-Naim conducts
research in statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics. He studies collective and
nonequilibrium dynamics of interacting particle systems with emphasis on granular matter.
His recent interdisciplinary research on stochastic processes modeling of complex systems
includes social, opinion, game, and population dynamics. Eli received his B.Sc. in
Physics and Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1990, and his Ph.D. in
Physics from Boston University in 1994. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of
Chicago and at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Complex Systems

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Efficiency of Competitions (with E. Ben-Naim and N.W. Hengartner), Physical Review E (2007)
 

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Parity and Predictability of Competitions (with Federico Vazquez and Sidney Redner), Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (2006)
 

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On The Structure of Competitive Societies (with E. Ben-Naim, F. Vazquez, and S. Redner), Eur. Phys. Jour. B (2006)
 

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Bifurcations and Patterns in Compromise Processes (with E. Ben-Naim, P. L. Krapivsky, and S. Redner), Physica D (2003)
 

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Coarsening and persistence in the voter model (with E. Ben-Naim, L. Frachebourg, and P.L. Krapivsky), Phys. Rev. E (1996)
 

Granular Materials

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Stationary states and energy cascades in inelastic gases (with E. Ben-Naim and J. Machta), Phys. Rev. Lett. (2005)
 

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Knots and Random Walks in Vibrated Granular Chains (with E. Ben-Naim, Z.A. Daya, P. Vorobieff, and R.E. Ecke), Phys. Rev. Lett. (2001)
 

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Shock-Like Dynamics of Inelastic Gases (with E. Ben-Naim, S.Y. Chen, and G.D. Doolen), Phys. Rev. Lett. (1999)
 

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Density Fluctuations in Vibrated Granular Materials (with E.R. Nowak, J.B. Knight, E. Ben-Naim, H.M Jaeger, and S.R. Nagel), Phys. Rev. E (1998)
 

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Towards Granular Hydrodynamics in Two-Dimensions (with E.L. Grossman, T. Zhou, and E. Ben-Naim), Phys. Rev. E (1997)
 

Kinetic Theory

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Kinetic Theory of Random Graphs: from Paths to Cycles (with E. Ben-Naim and P.L. Krapivsky), Phys. Rev. E (2005)
 

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The Inelastic Maxwell Model (with E. Ben-Naim and P.L. Krapivsky), Lecture Notes in Physics (2003)
 

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Kinetics of Clustering in Traffic Flows (with E. Ben-Naim, P. L. Krapivsky, and S. Redner), Phys. Rev. E (1994)