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The heartbeat of extended clocks
Author(s) -
Jung P.,
Gailey P.C.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
annalen der physik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1521-3889
pISSN - 0003-3804
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3889(200010)9:9/10<697::aid-andp697>3.0.co;2-b
Subject(s) - heartbeat , noise (video) , statistical physics , physics , computer science , artificial intelligence , computer security , image (mathematics)
We show that a combination of noise and self‐organization in purely excitable media can give rise to the formation of local almost periodic pacemakers. We present numerical studies of such pacemakers and provide approximate analytic estimates of their frequencies.