About the Authors

Lucas Böttcher

lucasb@ethz.ch

Affiliation Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Nuno A. M. Araújo

Affiliation Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências and Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Jan Nagler

Affiliation Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

José F. F. Mendes

Affiliation Departamento de Física and I3N, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Dirk Helbing

Affiliation Professorship of Computational Social Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Hans J. Herrmann

Affiliations Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LB NAMA JN JM DH HH. Performed the experiments: LB NAMA JN JM DH HH. Analyzed the data: LB NAMA JN JM DH HH. Wrote the paper: LB NAMA JN JM DH HH.