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Nature Physics 1, 13 - 14 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nphys140

Subject Categories: Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics | Condensed-matter physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics

Nonlinear dynamics: Universal clues in noisy skews

Karin Dahmen1

  1. Karin Dahmen is in the Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1110 W. Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. e-mail: dahmen@uiuc.edu


Crackling noise emitted in systems as diverse as candy wrappers and earthquakes show strikingly similar behaviour, but how it is influenced by the details of these systems is unclear. A study that identifies the microscopic origin of unexplained asymmetries in the noise emitted by a magnet could provide some answers.

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