Condensed matter systems, when driven far from equilibrium, often exhibit a far more varied set of phases than their equilibrium counterparts. The existence of non-equilibrium analogs of ‘solids’ and ‘liquids’ has been demonstrated earlier in the context of models for driven disordered...

We discuss the critical behavior of nonequilibrium anisotropic systems, particularly the driven lattice gas and its variants. A large series of available numerical results depict a coherent picture consistent with specific predictions drawn from novel field theory and its renormalization group...

A single-component, two-dimensional lattice model of self-replicating entities (replicators) which exhibits a nonequilibrium first-order phase transition into a unique absorbing state is introduced and studied through extensive numerical simulations. The basic dynamic processes are...

Investigations of the dynamics of heat and mass transfer show that in crisis and transient conditions one can observe high-energy fluctuations with a power spectrum inversely proportional to the frequency (flicker or 1/f fluctuations). Such a spectrum presupposes energy transient from high to...

The principle of maximum entropy has been used to analyze the stability of the resulting process observed during the interaction of a random process with a 1/f spectrum and a deterministic action in lumped and distributed systems of nonlinear stochastic differential equations describing the...

We present the results of experimental study of an intensive source of wide-band 1/f noise whose generation appears in a system of two interacting nonequilibrium phase transitions. Such a process has been realized in the region of superposition of a superconductor–normal conductor phase...

Thermal pulsations in a transition from a nucleate to a film regime of water boiling on a wire heater with a periodic Joule heat release have been studied experimentally. At frequencies of the periodic action smaller than 0.1 Hz the intermittency of the nucleate and film boiling regimes was...

The fossil record of life has been shown to provide evidence for scaling laws in both time series and in some statistical features. This evidence was suggested to be linked with a self-organized critical phenomenon by several authors. In this paper we review some of these models and their...

A thorough outlook on the origin of life needs to delineate a chemically rigorous, self-consistent path from highly heterogeneous, random ensembles of relatively simple organic molecules, to an entity that has rudimentary life-like characteristics. Such entity should be endowed with a capacity...

This short paper is a comment on ``Testing for Nonlinear Structure and Chaos in Economic Time Series'' by Catherine Kyrtsou and Apostolos Serletis. We summarize their main results and discuss some of their conclusions concerning the role of outliers and noisy chaos. In particular, we include...