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We consider the classical evolution of a lattice of non-linear coupled oscillators for a special case of initial conditions resembling the equilibrium state of a macroscopic thermal system at the critical point. The displacements of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. G. Antoniou , F. K. Diakonos , E. N. Saridakis , G. A. Tsolias

The abelian sandpile model in two dimensions does not show the type of critical behavior familar from equilibrium systems. Rather, the properties of the stationary state follow from the condition that an avalanche started at a distance r…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Barbara Drossel

The Abelian sandpile model serves as a canonical example of self-organized criticality. This critical behavior manifests itself through large cascading events triggered by small perturbations. Such large-scale events, known as avalanches,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Maike C. de Jongh , Richard J. Boucherie , M. N. M. van Lieshout

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

Ductile compaction is common in many natural systems, but the temporal evolution of such systems is rarely studied. We observe surprising oscillations in the weight measured at the bottom of a self-compacting ensemble of ductile grains. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Lina Uri , Dag Kristian Dysthe , Jens Feder

We describe the surface properties of a simple lattice model of a sandpile that includes evolving structural disorder. We present a dynamical scaling hypothesis for generic sandpile automata, and additionally explore the kinetic roughening…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. C. Barker , Anita Mehta

Usually, in order to investigate the evolution of a theory, one may find the critical points of the system and then perform perturbations around these critical points to see whether they are stable or not. This local method is very useful…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-19 Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li , Li-Yan Liu

We study the patterns formed by adding $N$ sand-grains at a single site on an initial periodic background in the Abelian sandpile models, and relaxing the configuration. When the heights at all sites in the initial background are low…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-18 Tridib Sadhu , Deepak Dhar

The exponential family of random graphs is one of the most promising class of network models. Dependence between the random edges is defined through certain finite subgraphs, analogous to the use of potential energy to provide dependence…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Mei Yin

The Bak--Sneppen model is a simple stochastic model of evolution that exhibits self-organized criticality and for which few analytical results have been established. In the original Bak-Sneppen model and many subsequent variants,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-10-20 Michael Grinfeld , Philip A. Knight , Andrew R. Wade

The concept of percolation is combined with a self-consistent treatment of the interaction between the dynamics on a lattice and the external drive. Such a treatment can provide a mechanism by which the system evolves to criticality without…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-11-29 A. V. Milovanov , K. Rypdal , J. J. Rasmussen

In order to investigate the evolutionary process of many deterministic Dynamical systems with unfixed parameter, a set of dynamical models with parameter changing continuously and the accumulation of this change might be large is introduced…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 H. P. Fang

We analyze an optimal stopping problem for random walk in random scenery on general graphs, and determine when it has a finite optimum. We use this to extend a theorem of Levine, Murugan, Peres, and Ugurcan [2016]. They proved that on a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Ahmed Bou-Rabee , Yuval Peres , Ecaterina Sava-Huss

We analyse the stability of linear dynamical systems defined on sparse, random graphs with predator-prey, competitive, and mutualistic interactions. These systems are aimed at modelling the stability of fixed points in large systems defined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-30 Andrea Marcello Mambuca , Chiara Cammarota , Izaak Neri

We investigate the formation processes of a sandpile using numerical simulation. We find a new relation between the fluctuation of the motion of the top and the surface state of a sandpile. The top moves frequently as particles are fed one…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Chiyori Urabe

Inspired by theories such as Loop Quantum Gravity, a class of stochastic graph dynamics was studied in an attempt to gain a better understanding of discrete relational systems under the influence of local dynamics. Unlabeled graphs in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hal Finkel

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

Cohesive powders form agglomerates that can be very porous. Hence they are also very fragile. Consider a process of complete fragmentation on a characteristic length scale $\ell$, where the fragments are subsequently allowed to settle under…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-10 Dietrich E. Wolf , Thorsten Poeschel , Thomas Schwager , Alexander Weuster , Lothar Brendel

The secular evolution process, which slowly transforms the morphology of a galaxy over its lifetime, could naturally account for observed properties of the great majority of physical galaxies if both stellar and gaseous accretion processes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Xiaolei Zhang

Similar evolutionary variational inequalities appear as convenient formulations for continuous quasistationary models for sandpile growth, formation of a network of lakes and rivers, magnetization of type-II superconductors, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Leonid Prigozhin