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Author(s):
T. Sato and Complexity Simulation Group
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Title:
Complexity in Plasma - A Grand View of Self- Organization
Date of publication:
Nov. 1994
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Key words:
complexity, self-organization, intermittency, recurrence, energy pumping, entropy expulsion, nonlinearity, bifurcation, anomalous extropy production
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Abstract:
The central theme of the Complexity is the inquest of the creation of ordered structure in nature. Extensive computer simulations on plasmas have revealed that self-organization is governed by the three key processes, i.e. energy pumping, entropy expulsion and nonlinearity. A system exhibits characteristically different self-organization, depending on whether the energy pumping is instantaneous or continuous, or whether the produced entropy is expulsed or reserved The nonlinearity acts to bring a nonequilibrium state into a bifurcation, thus resulting in a new structure along with an anomalous entropy production.
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