Earthquake Cycles and Neural Reverberations: Collective Oscillations in Systems with Pulse-Coupled Threshold Elements
Abstract
Driven systems of interconnected blocks with stick-slip friction capture main features of earthquake processes. The microscopic dynamics closely resemble those of spiking nerve cells. We analyze the differences in the collective behavior and introduce a class of solvable models. We prove that the models exhibit rapid phase locking, a phenomenon of particular interest to both geophysics and neurobiology. We study the dependence upon initial conditions and system parameters, and discuss implications for earthquake modeling and neural computation.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- August 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.1222
- Bibcode:
- 1995PhRvL..75.1222H