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The Activated Random Walk (ARW) model is a promising candidate for demonstrating self-organized criticality due to its potential for universality. Recent studies have shown that the ARW model exhibits a well-defined critical density in one…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Madeline Brown , Christopher Hoffman , Hyojeong Son

Activated Random Walk is a system of interacting particles which presents a phase transition and a conjectured phenomenon of self-organized criticality. In this note, we prove that, in dimension 1, in the supercritical case, when a segment…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Nicolas Forien

We consider Activated Random Walks on $\Z$ with totally asymmetric jumps and critical particle density, with different time scales for the progressive release of particles and the dissipation dynamics. We show that the cumulative flow of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Manuel Cabezas , Leonardo T. Rolla

To explain the ubiquity of power laws and fractals in nature, Bak, Tang, and Wiesenfeld formulated simple conditions for a system to self-organize into a critical state. Dickman, Mu\~noz, Vespignani, and Zapperi postulated that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-04 Christopher Hoffman , Tobias Johnson , Matthew Junge , Josh Meisel

Activated Random Walks, on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ for any $d\geqslant 1$, is an interacting particle system, where particles can be in either of two states: active or frozen. Each active particle performs a continuous-time simple random walk during…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Amine Asselah , Nicolas Forien , Alexandre Gaudillière

Some stochastic systems are particularly interesting as they exhibit critical behavior without fine-tuning of a parameter, a phenomenon called self-organized criticality. In the context of driven-dissipative steady states, one of the main…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Leonardo T. Rolla

We show that Activated Random Walk on $\mathbb{Z}$ is explosive above criticality. That is, activating a single particle in a supercritical state of sleeping particles triggers an infinite avalanche of activity with positive probability.…

Bak, Tang, and Wiesenfeld developed their theory of self-organized criticality in the late 1980s to explain why many real-life processes exhibit signs of critical behavior despite the absence of a tuning parameter. A decade later, Dickman,…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Christopher Hoffman , Tobias Johnson , Matthew Junge

We consider Activated Random Walk (ARW), a particle system with mass conservation, on the cycle $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$. One starts with a mass density $\mu>0$ of initially active particles, each of which performs a simple symmetric random…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Riddhipratim Basu , Shirshendu Ganguly , Christopher Hoffman , Jacob Richey

Understanding how simple local interactions give rise to emergent exploration patterns is a fundamental question in statistical physics. We introduce a minimal model of two coupled agents that avoid retracing their own paths while being…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-24 Nick Dashti , M. N. Najafi , Debra J. Searles

In two recent works, Hoffman, Johnson and Junge proved the density conjecture, the hockey stick conjecture and the ball conjecture for Activated Random Walks in dimension one, showing an equality between several different definitions of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Nicolas Forien

In this paper we present rigorous results on the critical behavior of the Activated Random Walk model. We conjecture that on a general class of graphs, including $\mathbb{Z}^d$, and under general initial conditions, the system at the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Manuel Cabezas , Leonardo T. Rolla , Vladas Sidoravicius

We consider one-dimensional activated random walk (ARW) on $\mathbb{Z}$ started from a `point source' initial condition, with many particles at the origin and no other particles. We prove that, uniformly throughout a macroscopic window…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Christopher Hoffman , Jacob Richey , Hyojeong Son

We consider a non-homogeneous random walks system on $\bbZ$ in which each active particle performs a nearest neighbor random walk and activates all inactive particles it encounters up to a total amount of $L$ jumps. We present necessary and…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Elcio Lebensztayn , Fabio Machado , Mauricio Zuluaga

We consider the activated random walk particle system, a model of self-organized criticality, on $\mathbb{Z}$ with i.i.d.-Bernoulli initial configuration. We show that at subcritical density, the system's odometer function, which counts the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Tobias Johnson , Jacob Richey

Unlike many particle systems, Activated Random Walk has nontrivial behavior even in one spatial dimension. We prove inner and outer bounds on the spread of n activated random walkers from a single source in Z. The inner bound involves a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Lionel Levine , Vittoria Silvestri

We define a random walk of a particle in $\mathbb{R}^3$ where the space is rotating. The particle is not glued to the space and will collide with it at random times, resulting in changes in its velocity and direction. After many collisions,…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Alberto M. Campos , Tarcísio P. R. Campos

Models of random walks are considered in which walkers are born at one location and die at all other locations with uniform death rate. Steady-state distributions of random walkers exhibit dimensionally dependent critical behavior as a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-09-25 Carl M. Bender , Stefan Boettcher , Peter N. Meisinger

To understand the onset of collective motion, we investigate active systems where particles switch on and off their self-propulsion. We prove that even when the only possible transition is off$\to$on, an active 2-state system behaves as an…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Hadrien-Matthieu Gascuel , Parisa Rahmani , Richard Bon , Fernando Peruani

We propose a new model of self-organized criticality. A particle is dropped at random on a lattice and moves along directions specified by arrows at each site. As it moves, it changes the direction of the arrows according to fixed rules. On…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 V. B. Priezzhev , Deepak Dhar , Abhishek Dhar , Supriya Krishnamurthy
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