https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2008-00124-y
Damage spreading in 2-dimensional isotropic and anisotropic Bak-Sneppen models
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Ege University, 35100 Izmir, Turkey
Corresponding authors: a burhan.bakar@mail.ege.edu.tr - b ugur.tirnakli@ege.edu.tr
Received:
4
June
2007
Revised:
19
February
2008
Published online:
21
March
2008
We implement the damage spreading technique on 2-dimensional isotropic and anisotropic Bak-Sneppen models. Our extensive numerical simulations show that there exists a power-law sensitivity to the initial conditions at the statistically stationary state (self-organized critical state). Corresponding growth exponent α for the Hamming distance and the dynamical exponent z are calculated. These values allow us to observe a clear data collapse of the finite size scaling for both versions of the Bak-Sneppen model. Moreover, it is shown that the growth exponent of the distance in the isotropic and anisotropic Bak-Sneppen models is strongly affected by the choice of the transient time.
PACS: 05.65.+b – Self-organized systems / 64.60.Ht – Dynamic critical phenomena / 87.23.Kg – Dynamics of evolution
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