Speaker
Mrs
Serena Di Santo
(Università di Parma)
Description
Self-organized criticality elucidates the conditions under which systems tune themselves to the edge of a second-order phase transition, with scale invariance. Motivated by the empirical observation of bimodal activity-burst distributions in neuroscience and other fields, we propose and analyze a theory for the self-organization to the point of phase-coexistence in systems exhibiting a first-order phase transition. It explains the emergence of regular avalanches with attributes of scale-invariance which coexist with huge anomalous ones, with possible realizations in many fields.
Primary authors
Mr
Miguel Angel Muñoz
(Universidad de Granada)
Mrs
Serena Di Santo
(Università di Parma)
Co-authors
Mr
Alessandro Vezzani
(Università di Parma)
Mrs
Raffaella Burioni
(Università di Parma)
