A solvable non-conservative model of Self-Organised Criticality

A solvable non-conservative model of Self-Organised Criticality

– We present the first solvable non-conservative sandpile-like critical model of Self-Organised Criticality (SOC), and thereby substantiate the suggestion by Vespignani and Zapperi (Vespignani A. and Zapperi S., Phys. Rev. E, 57 (1998) 6345) that a lack of conservation in the microscopic dynamics of an SOC model can be compensated by introducing an external drive and thereby re-establishing cri...

Studies in self-organised criticality

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Applying Self-Organised Criticality to Evolutionary Algorithms

Avalanching and Self Organised Criticality, a paradigm for geomagnetic activity?

The characterization of global energy storage and release in the coupled solar wind-magnetosphere system remains one of the fundamental problems of space physics. Recently, it has been realised that a new paradigm in physics, that of Self Organised Criticality (SOC) may encapsulate the mixing and merging of flux on many scales in the magnetotail prompting bursty energy release and reconfigurati...

Self-organised criticality in the evolution of a thermodynamic model of rodent thermoregulatory huddling

A thermodynamic model of thermoregulatory huddling interactions between endotherms is developed. The model is presented as a Monte Carlo algorithm in which animals are iteratively exchanged between groups, with a probability of exchanging groups defined in terms of the temperature of the environment and the body temperatures of the animals. The temperature-dependent exchange of animals between ...