Damage spreading in the Bak-Sneppen model: Sensitivity to the initial conditions and equilibration dynamics

Details Damage spreading in the Bak-Sneppen model: Sensitivity to the initial conditions and equilibration dynamics Damage spreading in the Bak-Sneppen model: Sensitivity to the initial conditions and equilibration dynamics

2002-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0207233v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

6 pages, 4 figs, revised version, accepted for publication in Int.J.Mod.Phys.C 14 (2003)

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The short-time and long-time dynamics of the Bak-Sneppen model of biological evolution are investigated using the damage spreading technique. By defining a proper Hamming distance measure, we are able to make it exhibits an initial power-law growth which, for finite size systems, is followed by a decay towards equilibrium. In this sense, the dynamics of self-organized critical states is shown to be similar to the one observed at the usual critical point of continuous phase-transitions and at the onset of chaos of non-linear low-dimensional dynamical maps. The transient, pre-asymptotic and asymptotic exponential relaxation of the Hamming distance between two initially uncorrelated equilibrium configurations is also shown to be fitted within a single mathematical framework. A connection with nonextensive statistical mechanics is exhibited.

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