https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2006-00110-5
Olami-Feder-Christensen model on different networks
1
Scuola Superiore di Catania, via S. Paolo 73, 95123 Catania, Italy
2
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, and INFN sezione di Catania, via S. Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy
3
Department for Theoretical Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute, PO Box 3000;, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Corresponding author: a filippo.caruso@sns.it
Received:
2
October
2005
Revised:
22
November
2005
Published online:
12
April
2006
We investigate numerically the Self Organized Criticality (SOC) properties of the dissipative Olami-Feder-Christensen model on small-world and scale-free networks. We find that the small-world OFC model exhibits self-organized criticality. Indeed, in this case we observe power law behavior of earthquakes size distribution with finite size scaling for the cut-off region. In the scale-free OFC model, instead, the strength of disorder hinders synchronization and does not allow to reach a critical state.
PACS: 05.65.+b – Self-organized systems / 45.70.Ht – Avalanches / 89.75.Da – Systems obeying scaling laws / 91.30.Bi – Seismic sources (mechanisms, magnitude, moment frequency spectrum)
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2006
