Tolerance and sensitivity in the fuse network
Abstract
We show that depending on the disorder, a small noise added to the threshold distribution of the fuse network may or may not completely change the subsequent breakdown process. When the threshold distribution has a lower cutoff at a finite value and a power law dependence towards large thresholds with an exponent which is less than $0.16\pm0.03$, the network is not sensitive to the added noise, otherwise it is. The transition between sensitivity or not appears to be second order, and is related to a localization-delocalization transition earlier observed in such systems.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics A Mathematical General
- Pub Date:
- February 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0305-4470/27/4/030
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/9310016
- Bibcode:
- 1994JPhA...27.1363B
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter
- E-Print:
- 12 pages, 3 figures available upon request, plain Tex