Statistical mechanics of driven diffusive systems

B Schmittmann, RKP Zia - Phase transitions and critical phenomena, 1995 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the systems coupled to two reservoirs of energy
in such a way that there is a steady energy flow through the system. An example is a resistor …

Statistical physics, seismogenesis, and seismic hazard

I Main - Reviews of Geophysics, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
The scaling properties of earthquake populations show remarkable similarities to those
observed at or near the critical point of other composite systems in statistical physics. This …

[LIVRE][B] Critical phenomena in natural sciences: chaos, fractals, selforganization and disorder: concepts and tools

D Sornette - 2006 - books.google.com
Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as
uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences …

[LIVRE][B] Self-organized criticality: emergent complex behavior in physical and biological systems

HJ Jensen - 1998 - books.google.com
Self-organized criticality (SOC) maintains that complex behavior can develop spontaneously
in certain multi-body systems whose dynamics vary abruptly. This is a clear and concise …

Self-organized criticality

DL Turcotte - Reports on progress in physics, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
The concept of self-organized criticality was introduced to explain the behaviour of the
sandpile model. In this model, particles are randomly dropped onto a square grid of boxes …

[HTML][HTML] Paths to self-organized criticality

R Dickman, MA Muñoz, A Vespignani… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2000 - SciELO Brasil
We present a pedagogical introduction to self-organized criticality (SOC), unraveling its
connections with nonequilibrium phase transitions. There are several paths from a …

Rapid local synchronization of action potentials: toward computation with coupled integrate-and-fire neurons.

JJ Hopfield, AV Herz - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 1995 - National Acad Sciences
The collective behavior of interconnected spiking nerve cells is investigated. It is shown that
a variety of model systems exhibit the same short-time behavior and rapidly converge to …

The dynamics of sand

A Mehta, GC Barker - Reports on Progress in Physics, 1994 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent years, sand has become a paradigm of complexity in physics; despite its everyday
familiarity, it has come to typify what is increasingly regarded as a'new'state of matter …

Earthquake cycles and neural reverberations: collective oscillations in systems with pulse-coupled threshold elements

AVM Herz, JJ Hopfield - Physical review letters, 1995 - APS
Driven systems of interconnected blocks with stick-slip friction capture main features of
earthquake processes. The microscopic dynamics closely resemble those of spiking nerve …

Feedback mechanisms for self-organization to the edge of a phase transition

V Buendía, S Di Santo, JA Bonachela… - Frontiers in physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Scale-free outbursts of activity are commonly observed in physical, geological, and
biological systems. The idea of self-organized criticality (SOC), introduced back in 1987 by …