Self-organized quantization and oscillations on continuous fixed-energy sandpiles

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Auteurs principaux: Niehues, Jakob, Jensen, Gorm Gruner, Haerter, Jan O.
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author Niehues, Jakob
Jensen, Gorm Gruner
Haerter, Jan O.
author_facet Niehues, Jakob
Jensen, Gorm Gruner
Haerter, Jan O.
contents Atmospheric self-organization and activator-inhibitor dynamics in biology provide examples of checkerboard-like spatio-temporal organization. We study a simple model for local activation-inhibition processes. Our model, first introduced in the context of atmospheric moisture dynamics, is a continuous-energy and non-Abelian version of the fixed-energy sandpile model. Each lattice site is populated by a non-negative real number, its energy. Upon each timestep all sites with energy exceeding a unit threshold re-distribute their energy at equal parts to their nearest neighbors. The limit cycle dynamics gives rise to a complex phase diagram in dependence on the mean energy $μ$: For low $μ$, all dynamics ceases after few re-distribution events. For large $μ$, the dynamics is well-described as a diffusion process, where the order parameter, spatial variance $σ$, is removed. States at intermediate $μ$ are dominated by checkerboard-like period-two phases which are however interspersed by much more complex phases of far longer periods. Phases are separated by discontinuous jumps in $σ$ or $\partial_μσ$ - akin to first and higher-order phase transitions. Overall, the energy landscape is dominated by few energy levels which occur as sharp spikes in the single-site density of states and are robust to noise.
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spellingShingle Self-organized quantization and oscillations on continuous fixed-energy sandpiles
Niehues, Jakob
Jensen, Gorm Gruner
Haerter, Jan O.
Statistical Mechanics
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Computational Physics
Atmospheric self-organization and activator-inhibitor dynamics in biology provide examples of checkerboard-like spatio-temporal organization. We study a simple model for local activation-inhibition processes. Our model, first introduced in the context of atmospheric moisture dynamics, is a continuous-energy and non-Abelian version of the fixed-energy sandpile model. Each lattice site is populated by a non-negative real number, its energy. Upon each timestep all sites with energy exceeding a unit threshold re-distribute their energy at equal parts to their nearest neighbors. The limit cycle dynamics gives rise to a complex phase diagram in dependence on the mean energy $μ$: For low $μ$, all dynamics ceases after few re-distribution events. For large $μ$, the dynamics is well-described as a diffusion process, where the order parameter, spatial variance $σ$, is removed. States at intermediate $μ$ are dominated by checkerboard-like period-two phases which are however interspersed by much more complex phases of far longer periods. Phases are separated by discontinuous jumps in $σ$ or $\partial_μσ$ - akin to first and higher-order phase transitions. Overall, the energy landscape is dominated by few energy levels which occur as sharp spikes in the single-site density of states and are robust to noise.
title Self-organized quantization and oscillations on continuous fixed-energy sandpiles
topic Statistical Mechanics
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04470