English

Noise, Synchrony and Correlations at the Edge of Chaos

Statistical Mechanics 2015-06-05 v4 Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

We study the effect of a weak random additive noise in a linear chain of N locally-coupled logistic maps at the edge of chaos. Maps tend to synchronize for a strong enough coupling, but if a weak noise is added, very intermittent fluctuations in the returns time series are observed. This intermittency tends to disappear when noise is increased. Considering the pdfs of the returns, we observe the emergence of fat tails which can be satisfactorily reproduced by qq-Gaussians curves typical of nonextensive statistical mechanics. Interoccurrence times of these extreme events are also studied in detail. Similarities with recent analysis of financial data are also discussed.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1206.2152,
  title  = {Noise, Synchrony and Correlations at the Edge of Chaos},
  author = {Alessandro Pluchino and Andrea Rapisarda and Constantino Tsallis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.2152},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, 8 figures, new figure added - Version accepted for publication in Physical Review E