SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY IN A DETERMINISTIC AUTOMATON

被引:45
作者
WIESENFELD, K
THEILER, J
MCNAMARA, B
机构
[1] MIT,LINCOLN LAB,LEXINGTON,MA 02173
[2] REED COLL,DEPT PHYS,PORTLAND,OR 97202
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.949
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We study a deterministic version of the cellular automaton first shown to display self-organized criticality. Detailed analysis shows that there exist many coexisting periodic attractors, with a period that is independent of initial condition. This leads us to picture the critical state as the union of many such coexisting, neutrally stable orbits. Dhars recently developed formalism [Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 1613 (1990)] can be used to explain many of the observed regularities. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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页码:949 / 952
页数:4
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