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cond-mat.soft2010★ 19 cited
Annealing a Magnetic Cactus into Phyllotaxis
Cristiano Nisoli, Nathaniel M. Gabor, Paul E. Lammert +2
The appearance of mathematical regularities in the disposition of leaves on a stem, scales on a pine-cone and spines on a cactus has puzzled scholars for millennia; similar so-call…
cond-mat.soft2007★ 30 cited
Static and Dynamical Phyllotaxis in a Magnetic Cactus
Cristiano Nisoli, Nathaniel Gabor, Paul E. Lammert +1
While the statics of many simple physical systems reproduce the striking number-theoretical patterns found in the phyllotaxis of living beings, their dynamics reveal unusual excita…