Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 9, 2026

Age-dependent Dynamics of Locomotion in Caenorhabditis elegans: A Lyapunov Exponent Analysis
Published on: September 23, 2025
Critical behavior of an even-offspringed branching and annihilating random-walk cellular automaton with spatial
1Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary.
Abstract:
A stochastic cellular automaton exhibiting a parity-conserving class transition has been investigated in the presence of quenched spatial disorder by large-scale simulations. Numerical evidence has been found that weak disorder causes irrelevant perturbation for the universal behavior of the transition and the absorbing phase of this model. This opens up the possibility for experimental observation of the critical behavior of a nonequilibrium phase transition to absorbing state. For very strong disorder the model breaks up into blocks with exponential-size distribution and continuously changing critical exponents are observed. For strong disorder the randomly distributed diffusion walls introduce another transition within the inactive phase of the model, in which residual particles survive the extinction. The critical dynamical behavior of this transition has been explored.
Related Concept Videos
Woodward–Hoffmann Selection Rules and Microscopic Reversibility
Cyclic Processes And Isolated Systems
In the case of a non-isolated system, the change in the internal energy is zero only if the process is cyclic. A thermodynamic process is considered cyclic if the system undergoes a series of changes and returns to its initial state.
Consider a cyclic process that returns to its initial state, undergoing a four-step process. The heat transfer along each path...
Entropy Change in Reversible Processes
The statement can be further generalized to prove that entropy is a state function. Take a cyclic process between any two points on a p-V diagram.
Random Variables
Uppercase letters such as X or Y denote a random variable. Lowercase letters like x or y denote the value of a random variable. If X is a random variable, then X is written in words, and x is given as a number.
For example, let X = the...
First Law: Particles in One-dimensional Equilibrium
First Law: Particles in Two-dimensional Equilibrium
Newton's first law tells us about the...
