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We have studied one-dimensional cellular automata with updating rules depending stochastically on the difference of the heights of neighbouring cells. The probability for toppling depends on a parameter lambda which goes to one with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Lubeck , K. D. Usadel

The two dimensional BTW model of SOC, with probabilistically nonuniform distribution of particles among the nearest neighbouring sites, is studied by computer simulation. When the value of height variable of a particular site reaches the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-23 Ajanta Bhowal Acharyya

Two-component sandpile models are investigated numerically and theoretically. Monte Calro simulations are performed to show that probability distribution functions of avalanche size and lifetime obey power laws whose exponents are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akihiro Fujihara , Toshiya Ohtsuki , Teruhiro Nakagawa

The brain keeps its overall dynamics in a corridor of intermediate activity and it has been a long standing question what possible mechanism could achieve this task. Mechanisms from the field of statistical physics have long been suggesting…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-08 Matthias Rybarsch , Stefan Bornholdt

Universal shape profiles in a variety of systems contain crucial information on the underlying dynamics. We develop such shape profiles for earthquakes as a stronger test of theory against observations. The earthquake analysis shows good…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Amit P. Mehta , Karin A. Dahmen , Yehuda Ben-Zion

Off-diagonal profiles of local densities (e.g. order parameter or energy density) are calculated at the bulk critical point, by conformal methods, for different types of boundary conditions (free, fixed and mixed). Such profiles, which are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Turban , F. Igloi

$Circuit~ Complexity$, a well known computational technique has recently become the backbone of the physics community to probe the chaotic behaviour and random quantum fluctuations of quantum fields. This paper is devoted to the study of…

A stochastic theory of gravity is described in which the metric tensor is a random variable such that the spacetime manifold is a fluctuating physical system at a certain length scale. A general formalism is described for calculating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 J. W. Moffat

We study local power fluctuations in numerical simulations of stationary, homogeneous, isotropic turbulence in two and three dimensions with Gaussian forcing. Due to the near-Gaussianity of the one-point velocity distribution, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. M. Bandi , Sergei G. Chumakov , Colm Connaughton

Statistical analyses of finite sample distributions usually assume that fluctuations are self-averaging, i.e. that they are statistically similar in different regions of the given sample volume. By using the scale-length method, we test…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Francesco Sylos Labini , Nikolay L. Vasilyev , Yurij V. Baryshev

In a model of self-organized criticality unstable sites discharge to just one of their neighbors. For constant discharge ratio $\alpha$ and for a certain range of values of the input energy, avalanches are simple branchless P\'olya random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. S. Manna , A. L. Stella

Self-organized criticality elucidates the conditions under which physical and biological systems tune themselves to the edge of a second-order phase transition, with scale invariance. Motivated by the empirical observation of bimodal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-22 Serena di Santo , Raffaella Burioni , Alessandro Vezzani , Miguel A. Muñoz

Ex ante forecast outcomes should be interpreted as counterfactuals (potential histories), with errors as the spread between outcomes. Reapplying measurements of uncertainty about the estimation errors of the estimation errors of an…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2012-09-12 Nassim N. Taleb

We study a model of ``organized'' criticality, where a single avalanche propagates through an \textit{a priori} static (i.e., organized) sandpile configuration. The latter is chosen according to an i.i.d. distribution from a Borel…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marek Biskup , Philippe Blanchard , Lincoln Chayes , Daniel Gandolfo , Tyll Krueger

Empirical determination of the scaling properties and exponents of time series presents a formidable challenge in testing, and developing, a theoretical understanding of turbulence and other out-of-equilibrium phenomena. We discuss the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-29 S. C. Chapman , B. Hnat , G. Rowlands , N. W. Watkins

Turbulence is essential for understanding the structure and dynamics of molecular clouds and star-forming regions. There is a need for adequate tools to describe and characterize the properties of turbulent flows. One-point probability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ralf S. Klessen

Self-organized criticality is characterized by power law correlations in the non-equilibrium steady state of externally driven systems. A dynamical system proposed here self-organizes itself to a critical state with no characteristic size…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Santanu Sinha , Vimal Kishore , S. B. Santra

The statistics of natural catastrophes contains very counter-intuitive results. Using earthquakes as a working example, we show that the energy radiated by such events follows a power-law or Pareto distribution. This means, in theory, that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-04 Alvaro Corral , Francesc Font-Clos

(Abridged) By comparing the frequency of typical events with that of unusual events, one can test whether the cosmological density distribution function is consistent with the normally made assumption of Gaussianity. To this end, we compare…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Weihsueh A. Chiu , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Michael A. Strauss

The notion of scale-invariant dynamics is well established at late times in quantum chaotic systems, as illustrated by the emergence of a ramp in the spectral form factor (SFF). Building on the results of the preceding Letter [Phys. Rev.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-03 Miroslav Hopjan , Lev Vidmar