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Self-organized criticality and synchronization in a lattice model of integrate-and-fire oscillators

Condensed Matter 2009-10-22 v2 adap-org Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems

Abstract

We introduce two coupled map lattice models with nonconservative interactions and a continuous nonlinear driving. Depending on both the degree of conservation and the convexity of the driving we find different behaviors, ranging from self-organized criticality, in the sense that the distribution of events (avalanches) obeys a power law, to a macroscopic synchronization of the population of oscillators, with avalanches of the size of the system.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9411054,
  title  = {Self-organized criticality and synchronization in a lattice model of integrate-and-fire oscillators},
  author = {A. Corral and C. J. Perez and A. Diaz-Guilera and A. Arenas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9411054},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, Revtex 3.0, 3 PostScript figures available upon request to [email protected]