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Volume 109, Number 3, February 2015
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Article Number | 30004 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/109/30004 | |
Published online | 19 February 2015 |
Self-organization and self-avoiding limit cycles
Department of Physics, Technion-IIT - 32000 Haifa, Israel
Received: 16 November 2014
Accepted: 23 January 2015
A simple periodically driven system displaying rich behavior is introduced and studied. The system self-organizes into a mosaic of static ordered regions with three possible patterns, which are threaded by one-dimensional paths on which a small number of mobile particles travel. These trajectories are self-avoiding and non-intersecting, and their relationship to self-avoiding random walks is explored. Near the distribution of path lengths becomes power-law–like up to some cutoff length, suggesting a possible critical state.
PACS: 05.65.+b – Self-organized systems / 74.40.Gh – Nonequilibrium superconductivity
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