Deformation and flow of amorphous solids: Insights from elastoplastic models

A Nicolas, EE Ferrero, K Martens, JL Barrat - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018‏ - APS
The deformation and flow of disordered solids, such as metallic glasses and concentrated
emulsions, involves swift localized rearrangements of particles that induce a long-range …

Why brain criticality is clinically relevant: a sco** review

V Zimmern - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
The past 25 years have seen a strong increase in the number of publications related to
criticality in different areas of neuroscience. The potential of criticality to explain various …

[HTML][HTML] Statistical physics approaches to the complex Earth system

J Fan, J Meng, J Ludescher, X Chen, Y Ashkenazy… - Physics reports, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Global warming, extreme climate events, earthquakes and their accompanying
socioeconomic disasters pose significant risks to humanity. Yet due to the nonlinear …

[کتاب][B] How nature works: the science of self-organized criticality

P Bak - 2013‏ - books.google.com
and acknowledgments Self-organized criticality is a new way of viewing nature. The basic
picture is one where nature is perpetually out of balance, but organized in a poised state-the …

[کتاب][B] The mechanics of earthquakes and faulting

CH Scholz - 2019‏ - books.google.com
This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment
of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The …

[کتاب][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 …

Spatio-temporal propagation of COVID-19 pandemics

B Gross, Z Zheng, S Liu, X Chen, A Sela, J Li… - Europhysics …, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The coronavirus known as COVID-19 has spread worldwide since December 2019. Without
any vaccination or medicine, the means of controlling it are limited to quarantine and social …

Physics of the granular state

HM Jaeger, SR Nagel - Science, 1992‏ - science.org
Granular materials display a variety of behaviors that are in many ways different from those
of other substances. They cannot be easily classified as either solids or liquids. This has …

Unified scaling law for earthquakes

P Bak, K Christensen, L Danon, T Scanlon - Physical Review Letters, 2002‏ - APS
We show that the distribution of waiting times between earthquakes occurring in California
obeys a simple unified scaling law valid from tens of seconds to tens of years. The short time …

Power laws and self-organized criticality in theory and nature

D Marković, C Gros - Physics Reports, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Power laws and distributions with heavy tails are common features of many complex
systems. Examples are the distribution of earthquake magnitudes, solar flare intensities and …