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The sizes of snow slab failure that trigger snow avalanches are power-law distributed. Such a power-law probability distribution function has also been proposed to characterize different landslide types. In order to understand this scaling…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 Jerome Faillettaz , Francois Louchet , Jean-Robert Grasso

The critical brain hypothesis posits that neural circuitry operates near criticality to reap the computational benefits of accessing a wide range of timescales. The theory of critical phenomena generally predicts heavy-tailed (power-law)…

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There are indications that for optimizing neural computation, neural networks - including the brain - operate at criticality. Previous approaches have, however, used diverse fingerprints of criticality, leaving open the question whether…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-30 Kalris Kanders , Ruedi Stoop

We discuss the threshold activated extremal dynamics that is prevalent in the breakdown processes in heterogeneous materials. We model such systems by an elastic spring network with random breaking thresholds assigned to the springs.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Purusattam Ray

Randomly-assembled dynamical systems are theoretically predicted to be unstable upon crossing a critical threshold of complexity, as first shown by May. Yet, empirical complex systems exhibit remarkable stability, indicating the presence of…

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The scale-invariant glitch statistics observed in individual pulsars (exponential waiting-time and power-law size distributions) are consistent with a critical self-organization process, wherein superfluid vortices pin metastably in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Andrew Melatos , Lila Warszawski

The aim of this study is to investigate a wave dynamics and size scaling of avalanches which were created by the mathematical model {[}J. \v{C}ern\'ak Phys. Rev. E \textbf{65}, 046141 (2002)]. Numerical simulations were carried out on a two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jozef Cernak

We have numerically studied the trapping problem in a two-dimensional lattice where particles are continuously generated. We have introduced interaction between particles and directionality of their movement. This model presents a critical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 I. Campos , A. Tarancon

In this work we explore recurrent representations of leaky integrate and fire neurons operating at a timescale equal to their absolute refractory period. Our coarse time scale approximation is obtained using a probability distribution…

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Uniform spherical beads were used to explore the behavior of a granular system near its critical angle of repose on a conical bead pile. We found two tuning parameters that could take the system to a critical point where a simple power-law…

Leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) networks are standard reduced models for spike-based neural dynamics and a natural substrate for neuromorphic computation. We study time-driven Euler--Maruyama simulation of current-based LIF networks with…

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In this paper, we show that the recent integration of statistical models with deep recurrent neural networks provides a new way of formulating volatility (the degree of variation of time series) models that have been widely used in time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Rui Luo , Weinan Zhang , Xiaojun Xu , Jun Wang

Acoustic emission (AE) measurements performed during the compressive loading of concrete samples with three different microstructures (aggregate sizes and porosity) and four sample sizes revealed that failure is preceded by an acceleration…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-16 Chi-Cong Vu , David Amitrano , Olivier Plé , Jérôme Weiss

In classical diffusion, particle step-sizes have a Gaussian distribution. However, in superdiffusion, they have power-law tails, with transport dominated by rare, long L\'evy flights. Similarly, if the time interval between scattering…

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We investigate the sandpile model on the two--dimensional Sierpinski gasket fractal. We find that the model displays novel critical behavior, and we analyze the distribution functions of avalanche sizes, lifetimes and topplings and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 Brigita Kutjnak-Urbanc , Stefano Zapperi , Sava Milošević , H. Eugene Stanley

In realistic hardware for quantum computation that possesses fault-tolerance, non-stationary noise and stochastic drift lead to logical failure from the temporal accumulation of errors, not from independent events. Static decoding and fixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Tirtha Haque

We have investigated the spatiotemporal chaotic dynamics of unjamming and jamming of particles in a toy-model system -- a rotating drum partially filled with bidisperse disks to create avalanches. The magnitudes of the first Lyapunov vector…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-02-04 Ziwei Wang , Jie Zhang

We simulate the $N$-spin critical Ising model on a square lattice using Glauber dynamics and consider the typical one-unit time equal to $N$ single-spin-flip attempts. The divergence of correlation time with the linear extent of the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-07 Rahul Chhimpa , Avinash Chand Yadav

Avalanches, or Avalanche-like, events are often observed in the dynamical behaviour of many complex systems which span from solar flaring to the Earth's crust dynamics and from traffic flows to financial markets. Self-organized criticality…

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