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cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 11 cited

Spectrum of the Stress Dynamics with the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld Sandpile

Alexander Shapoval, Mikhail Shnirman

With the original Bak-Tang-Wisenefeld (BTW) sandpile we uncover the noise in the mechanism maintaining self-organized criticality (SOC) - the question raised together with th…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 6 cited

Probability Distribution in a Close Proximity of the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld Sandpile

A. Shapoval, B. Shapoval, M. Shnirman

The mechanism of self-organized criticality is based on a steady slow loading and a quick huge stress-release. We add the clustering of the events in space and time to the Bak-Tang…

cond-mat.stat-mech2011★ 35 cited

Common dependence on stress for the statistics of granular avalanches and earthquakes

Takahiro Hatano, Clément Narteau, Peter Shebalin

The statistical properties of avalanches in a dissipative particulate system under slow shear are investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. It is found that the magnitude-…

cond-mat.stat-mech2006★ 1 cited

Randmoness and Step-like Distribution of Pile Heights in Avalanche Models

A. B. Shapoval, M. G. Shnirman

The paper develops one-parametric family of the sand-piles dealing with the grains' local losses on the fixed amount. The family exhibits the crossover between the models with dete…

cond-mat.stat-mech2002★ 14 cited

New Evidence of Discrete Scale Invariance in the Energy Dissipation of Three-Dimensional Turbulence: Correlation Approach and Direct Spectral Detection

W. -X. Zhou, D. Sornette, V. Pisarenko

We extend the analysis of [Zhou and Sornette, Physica D 165, 94-125, 2002] showing statistically significant log-periodic corrections to scaling in the moments of the energy dissip…

cond-mat.stat-mech2002★ 166 cited

Slider-Block Friction Model for Landslides: Application to Vaiont and La Clapiere Landslides

A. Helmstetter, D. Sornette, J. -R. Grasso +3

Accelerating displacements preceding some catastrophic landslides have been found empirically to follow a time-to-failure power law, corresponding to a finite-time singularity of t…

cond-mat.stat-mech2002★ 67 cited

Fractal Plate Tectonics

D. Sornette, V. F. Pisarenko

We analyze in details the statistical significance of the claim by Bird [2002] of a power law distribution of plate areas covering the Earth and confirm that the power law with exp…

cond-mat.stat-mech2002★ 40 cited

Rigorous statistical detection and characterization of a deviation from the Gutenberg-Richter distribution above magnitude 8 in subduction zones

V. F. Pisarenko, D. Sornette

We present a quantitative statistical test for the presence of a crossover c0 in the Gutenberg-Richter distribution of earthquake seismic moments, separating the usual power law re…

cond-mat.stat-mech2000★ 110 cited

Characterization of the frequency of extreme events by the Generalized Pareto Distribution

V. F. Pisarenko, D. Sornette

Based on recent results in extreme value theory, we use a new technique for the statistical estimation of distribution tails. Specifically, we use the Gnedenko-Pickands-Balkema-de…

cond-mat.stat-mech1997★ 20 cited

Ordering and Demixing Transitions in Multicomponent Widom-Rowlinson Models

J. L. Lebowitz, A. Mazel, P. Nielaba +1

We use Monte Carlo techniques and analytical methods to study the phase diagram of multicomponent Widom-Rowlinson models on a square lattice: there are M species all with the same…

cond-mat.stat-mech1997★ 12 cited

On the uniqueness of Gibbs states in the Pirogov-Sinai theory

J. L. Lebowitz, A. E. Mazel

We prove that, for low-temperature systems considered in the Pirogov-Sinai theory, uniqueness in the class of translation-periodic Gibbs states implies global uniqueness, i.e. the…