Avalanching systems with longer range connectivity: occurrence of a crossover phenomenon and multifractal finite size scaling
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Benella, Simone; Consolini, Giuseppe; Giannattasio, Fabio; Chang, Tom; Echim, Marius
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Many out-of-equilibrium systems respond to external driving with nonlinear and self-similar dynamics. This near scale-invariant behavior of relaxation events has been modeled through sand pile cellular automata. However, a common feature of these models is the assumption of a local connectivity, while in many real systems, we have evidence for longer range connectivity and a complex topology of the interacting structures. Here, we investigate the role that longer range connectivity might play in near scale-invariant systems, by analyzing the results of a sand pile cellular automaton model on a Newman–Watts network. The analysis clearly indicates the occurrence of a crossover phenomenon in the statistics of the relaxation events as a function of the percentage of longer range links and the breaking of the simple Finite Size Scaling (FSS). The more complex nature of the dynamics in the presence of long-range connectivity is investigated in terms of multi-scaling features and analyzed by the Rank-Ordered Multifractal Analysis (ROMA). ©2017 Keywords: avalanche dynamics; network; near-criticality behavior; finite size scaling; multifractal analysis
Date issued
2017-07-26Department
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space ResearchJournal
Entropy
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Benella, Simone, Giuseppe Consolini, Fabio Giannattasio, Tom T.S. Chang, and Marius Echim, "Avalanching systems with longer range connectivity: occurrence of a crossover phenomenon and multifractal finite size scaling." Entropy 19, 8 (July 2017): p. 383 doi 10.3390/e19080383 ©2017 Author(s)
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1099-4300