A simple deterministic self-organized critical system

We introduce a new continuous cellular automaton that presents self-organized criticality. It is one-dimensional, totally deterministic, without any kind of embedded randomness, not even in the initial conditions. This system is in the same universality class as the Oslo rice pile system, boundary driven interface depinning and the train model for earthquakes. Although the system is chaotic, in the thermodynamic limit chaos occurs only in a microscopic level.Comment: System slightly modified. New results on Liapunov exponents. Submitted for publication (8 pages

Some properties of two Nambu--Jona-Lasinio -type models with inputs from lattice QCD

We investigate the phase diagram of the so-called Polyakov--Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model at finite temperature and nonzero chemical potential. The calculations are performed in the light and strange quark sectors ($u$, $d$, $s$), which includes the 't Hooft instanton induced interaction term that breaks the axial symmetry, and the quarks are coupled to the (spatially constant) temporal background gauge field. On one hand, a special attention is payed to the critical end point (CEP). The strength of the flavor-mixing interaction alters the CEP location, since when it becomes weaker the CEP moves to low temperatures and can even disappear. On the other hand, we also explore the connection between QCD, a nonlocal Nambu--Jona-Lasinio type model and the Landau gauge gluon propagator. Possible links between the quenched gluon propagator and low energy hadronic phenomenology are investigated.Comment: Contribution to the International Meeting "Excited QCD", Peniche, Portugal, 06 - 12 May 201

Chaos and Synchronized Chaos in an Earthquake Model

We show that chaos is present in the symmetric two-block Burridge-Knopoff model for earthquakes. This is in contrast with previous numerical studies, but in agreement with experimental results. In this system, we have found a rich dynamical behavior with an unusual route to chaos. In the three-block system, we see the appearance of synchronized chaos, showing that this concept can have potential applications in the field of seismology.Comment: To appear in Physical Review Letters (13 pages, 6 figures

Negative Energy Densities in Extended Sources Generating Closed Timelike Curves in General Relativity with and without Torsion

Near a spinning point particle in (2+1)-dimensional gravity (or near an infinitely thin, straight, spinning string in 3+1 dimensions) there is a region of space-time with closed timelike curves. Exact solutions for extended sources with apparently physically acceptable energy-momentum tensors, have produced the same exterior space-time structure. Here it is pointed out that in the case with torsion, closed timelike curves appear only for spin densities so high that the spin energy density is higher than the net effective energy density. In models without torsion, the presence of closed time-like curves is related to a heat flow of unphysical magnitude. This corroborates earlier arguments against the possibility of closed timelike curves in space-time geometries generated by physical sources.Comment: (to be published in Phys. Rev. D), 5 pages, REVTEX 3.0, NORDITA 93/62 A (Sept. 10/Revised Nov. 1, 1993

Custo e rentabilidade da atividade de extração de açaí em áreas de baixio na Reserva Extrativista Chico Mendes, Seringais Porvir, Filipinas, Etelvi, no Acre.

A comercialização do açaí está se destacando como uma das principais potencialidades para o uso de produtos florestais não-madeireiros, apresentando demanda crescente tanto no mercado nacional como internacional. Na Amazônia existem duas espécies de palmeiras utilizadas para a produção do açaí: Euterpe precatoria e Euterpe oleracea. Devido à crescente importância deste produto no mercado, avaliaram-se o custo e a rentabilidade do sistema extrativo para produção do açaí (E. precatoria) em áreas de baixio, localizadas na Reserva Extrativista Chico Mendes, Município de Brasiléia, Estado do Acre, e trabalhadas com orientação da Universidade Federal do Acre (Ufac) e Embrapa Acre.bitstream/CPAF-AC-2010/21171/1/comunicado170.pd

Spin configurations in hard-soft coupled bilayer systems: from rigid magnet to exchange spring transitions

We investigate equilibrium properties of an exchange-spring magnetic system constituted of a soft layer (e.g. Fe) of a given thickness on top of a hard magnetic layer (e.g. FePt). The magnetization profile M(z) as a function of the atomic position ranging from the bottom of the hard layer to the top of the soft layer is obtained in two cases with regard to the hard layer: i) in the case of a rigid interface (the FePt layer is a single layer), the profile is obtained analytically as the exact solution of a sine-Gordon equation with Cauchy's boundary conditions. Additional numerical simulations also confirm this result. Asymptotic expressions of M(z) show a linear behavior near the bottom and the top of the soft layer. In addition, a critical value of the number of atomic planes in the soft layer, that is necessary for the onset of spin deviations, is obtained in terms of the anisotropy and exchange coupling between the adjacent plane in the soft layer. ii) in the case of a relaxed interface (the FePt layer is a multilayer), the magnetization profile is obtained numerically for various Fe and FePt films thicknesses and applied field.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, PRB submitted (12-07-2010

Balanço hídrico climático de Juazeiro - BA.

O objetivo desse trabalho foi realizar o balanço hídrico climático de Juazeiro-BA, no período de 1967 a1998, gerando uma idéia do que acontece com boa parte da região semi-árida, no que diz respeito a disponibilidadede água, observando-se ainda a tendência climática temporal da região

Breakdown of self-organized criticality

We introduce two sandpile models which show the same behavior of real sandpiles, that is, an almost self-organized critical behavior for small systems and the dominance of large avalanches as the system size increases. The systems become fully self-organized critical, with the critical exponents of the Bak, Tang and Wiesenfeld model, as the system parameters are changed, showing that these systems can make a bridge between the well known theoretical and numerical results and what is observed in real experiments. We find that a simple mechanism determines the boundary where self-organized can or cannot exist, which is the presence of local chaos.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figure