Ergodic dynamics in a natural threshold system.
Numerical simulations suggest that certain driven, dissipative mean-field threshold systems, including earthquake models, can be characterized by statistical properties often associated with ergodic dynamics, in the same sense as stochastic Brownian motion. We applied a fluctuation metric proposed by Thirumalai and Mountain [Phys. Rev. E 47, 479 (1993)]] for statistically stationary systems and find that the natural earthquake fault system in California demonstrates similar ergodic dynamics.
Tiampo
K F
KF
CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA.
Rundle
J B
JB
Klein
W
W
Martins
J S Sá
JS
Ferguson
C D
CD
D003198:Computer Simulation; D004190:Disasters; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012684:Sensory Thresholds