title: Critical phenomena in globally coupled excitable elements.
abstract: Critical phenomena in globally coupled excitable elements are studied by focusing on a saddle-node bifurcation at the collective level. Critical exponents that characterize divergent fluctuations of interspike intervals near the bifurcation are calculated theoretically. The calculated values appear to be in good agreement with those determined by numerical experiments. The relevance of our results to jamming transitions is also mentioned.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan. hiroki@jiro.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hiroki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ohta
authors.forename: Shin-Ichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sasa