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The basic laws of physics are simple, so why is the world complex? The theory of self-organized criticality posits that complex behavior in nature emerges from the dynamics of extended, dissipative systems that evolve through a sequence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maya Paczuski , Per Bak

We consider the Bernoulli percolation model in a finite box and we introduce an automatic control of the percolation probability, which is a function of the percolation configuration. For a suitable choice of this automatic control, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Raphaël Cerf , Nicolas Forien

Over the years, problems like percolation and self-avoiding walks have provided important testing grounds for our understanding of the nature of the critical state. I describe some very recent ideas, as well as some older ones, which cast…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 John Cardy

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

This paper outlines a methodological approach for designing adaptive agents driving themselves near points of criticality. Using a synthetic approach we construct a conceptual model that, instead of specifying mechanistic requirements to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-12-14 Miguel Aguilera , Manuel G. Bedia

Self-organized bistability (SOB) stands as a critical behavior for the systems delicately adjusting themselves to the brink of bistability, characterized by a first-order transition. Its essence lies in the inherent ability of the system to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-01-08 Md Sayeed Anwar , Nikita Frolov , Alexander E. Hramov , Dibakar Ghosh

Power laws in nature are considered to be signatures of complexity. The theory of self-organized criticality (SOC) was proposed to explain their origins. A longstanding principle of SOC is the \emph{separation of timescales} axiom. It…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-03 Anirban Das , Anna Levina

Based on the LISSOM model and the OFC earthquake model, we introduce a self-organized feature map Neural Network model . It displays a "Self Organized Criticality"(SOC) behavior. It can be seen that the feature area (synchronized area)…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao Wei Zhao , Tian Lun Chen

The modification of the model of P.Bak and K.Sneppen of the self-organized biological evolution is proposed on the basis of a formalization of the scheme of the biosphere evolution suggested by O.V.Kovalev. This scheme is regarded as one…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 O. V. Kovalev , Yu. M. Pis'mak , V. V. Vechernin

A continuum model for self-organized dynamics is numerically investigated. The model describes systems of particles subject to alignment interaction and short-range repulsion. It consists of a non-conservative hyperbolic system for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Pierre Degond , Jiale Hua

Many driven systems alternate between bursts of activity and quiescence and can become trapped in an absorbing state, such as complete inactivity in reaction-diffusion processes or extinction in predator-prey dynamics. It is generally…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-14 Kartik Chhajed , P. K. Mohanty

The paper addresses a continuous-time continuous-space chance-constrained stochastic optimal control (SOC) problem where the probability of failure to satisfy given state constraints is explicitly bounded. We leverage the notion of exit…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Apurva Patil , Alfredo Duarte , Fabrizio Bisetti , Takashi Tanaka

Sand pile formation is often used to describe stratified chaos in dynamic systems due to self-emergent and scale invariant behaviour. Cellular automata (Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld model) are often used to describe chaotic behaviour, as simulating…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-05 Ate Poortinga , Jan G. Wesseling , Coen J. Ritsema

We investigate the critical behavior of systems exhibiting a continuous absorbing phase transition in the presence of a conserved field coupled to the order parameter. The results obtained point out the existence of a new universality class…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michela Rossi , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras , Alessandro Vespignani

We study the absorbing state transition in particulate systems under spatially inhomogeneous driving using a modified random organization model. For smoothly varying driving the steady state results map onto the homogeneous absorbing state…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-06 Bhanu Prasad Bhowmik , Christopher Ness

A new type of spatial-temporal correlation in the process approaching to the self-organized criticality is investigated for the two simple models for biological evolution. The change behaviors of the position with minimum barrier are shown…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 C. B. Yang , X. Cai , Z. M. Zhou

Information processing in complex systems is often found to be maximally efficient close to critical states associated with phase transitions. It is therefore conceivable that also neural information processing operates close to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 Christian Meisel , Thilo Gross

Experiments of periodically sheared colloidal suspensions or soft amorphous solids display a transition from reversible to irreversible particle motion that, when analysed stroboscopically in time, is interpreted as an absorbing phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-14 Romain Mari , Eric Bertin , Cesare Nardini

We focus in this work on the study of traffic in open systems using a modified version of an existing cellular automaton model. We demonstrate that the open system is rather different from the closed system in its 'choice' of a unique…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. Larraga , J. A. del Rio , Anita Mehta

Many non-equilibrium systems display dynamic phase transitions from active to absorbing states, where fluctuations cease entirely. Based on a field theory representation of the master equation, the critical behavior can be analyzed by means…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Uwe C. Tauber