Citation

Biswas S, Goehring L, Chakrabarti BK. Philos. Transact. A Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 2018; 377(2136): e0202.

Affiliation

S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700108, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Royal Society Publishing)

DOI

10.1098/rsta.2018.0202

PMID

30478212

Abstract

Manifestations of emergent properties in stressed disordered materials are often the result of an interplay between strong perturbations in the stress field around defects. The collective response of a long-ranged correlated multi-component system is an ideal playing field for statistical physics. Hence, many aspects of such collective responses in widely spread length and energy scales can be addressed by the tools of statistical physics. In this theme issue, some of these aspects are treated from various angles of experiments, simulations and analytical methods, and connected together by their common base of complex-system dynamics.This article is part of the theme issue 'Statistical physics of fracture and earthquakes'.

© 2018 The Author(s).

Language: en

Keywords

avalanche dynamics; earthquakes; self-organized criticality