Synchronisation and Collective Effects in Extended Stochastic Systems

• Autores: Claudio Juan Tessone
• Directores de la Tesis: Raúl Toral Garcés (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat de les Illes Balears ( España ) en 2006
• Idioma: inglés
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Jürgen Kurths (presid.), Claudio Rubén Mirasso Santos (secret.), Horacio Sergio Wio Beitelmajer (voc.), Pere Colet Rafecas (voc.), Alessandro Torcini (voc.)
• Calificación: Sobresaliente Cum Laude
• Materias:
  • Matemáticas
    • Probabilidad
      • Procesos estocásticos
  • Física
    • Química física
      • Estados de la materia
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: Digital CSIC
• Resumen

  • The aim of this thesis is to delve into the constructive role that disordering elements can play on dynamical systems. For systems composed by many units, by disordering elements, we mean ingredients that cause each unit to evolve in a different way. For example, uncorrelated noise sources acting independently on the system constituents. Also, we consider diversity: in many systems of interest not all the interacting units are equal. Strikingly, it is the loss of degree order what causes the systems to exhibit a more coherent behaviour. We further consider the effect of different kinds of interaction, and we also show that they can generate a rich variety of phenomena: from leading towards a more coherent behaviour to causing interesting effects in chains of diverse elements.