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Title: Is the world at the border of chaos

Conference · · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States)
OSTI ID:7034768
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  1. Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 (United States)

Dissipative dynamical systems with many degrees of freedom naturally evolve to a self-organized critical state with fluctuations (avalanches) extending over all length- and time-scales. The systems operate at the border of chaos, with zero Lyapunov exponent and algebraic growth of initial deviations. This picture has support from numerical and analytical model calculations, and from experiments by Held on sandpiles, by Babcock and Westervelt, and by Che and Suhl on magnetic domain patterns, and by God on earthquakes. Applications to turbulence, biology, and economics have been suggested.

DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH00016
OSTI ID:
7034768
Report Number(s):
CONF-891248-; CODEN: APCPC
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States), Vol. 213:1; Conference: US-USSR conference on frontiers in condensed matter theory, New York, NY (United States), 4-8 Dec 1989; ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English