A celebrated and controversial hypothesis suggests that some biological systems—parts,
aspects, or groups of them—may extract important functional benefits from operating at the …

The thermally activated creep motion of an elastic interface weakly driven on a disordered
landscape is one of the best examples of glassy universal dynamics. Its understanding has …

Abstract We identified heterogeneous Mg-Ho alloys as an ideal material to measure the
most extensive acoustic emission spectra available. Mg-Ho alloys are porous and show a …

Physical systems characterized by stick-slip dynamics often display avalanches. Regardless
of the diversity of their microscopic structure, these systems are governed by a power-law …

Brittle fractures of inhomogeneous materials like rocks, concrete, or ceramics are of two
types: Nominally brittle and driven by the propagation of a single dominant crack or quasi …

In many complex systems, self-organised criticality (SOC) provides a mechanism for the
diversity of spatiotemporal scales that optimises the system's response to omnipresent …

Disordered elastic interfaces display avalanche dynamics at the depinning transition. For
short-range interactions, avalanches correspond to compact reorganizations of the interface …

The initial footprint of an earthquake can be extended considerably by triggering of clustered
aftershocks. Such earthquake–earthquake interactions have been studied extensively for …

The jerky dynamics of domain walls driven by applied magnetic fields in disordered
ferromagnets—the Barkhausen effect—is a paradigmatic example of crackling noise. We …

Measurements of the sample length of PbZrO 3 and LaAlO 3 under slowly increasing force
(3-30 mN/min) yield a superposition of a continuous decrease interrupted by discontinuous …