# Criticality of tuning in athermal phase transitions

Source: [Criticality of tuning in athermal phase transitions](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa23672c2a376019397080>)

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Authors: U. Chandni, Arindam Ghosh, H. S. Vijaya, S. Mohan

Published: 2008-11-01T17:22:42.000Z

## Abstract

We experimentally address the importance of tuning in athermal phase transitions, which are triggered only by a slowly varying external field acting as tuning parameter. Using higher order statistics of fluctuations, a singular critical instability is detected for the first time in spite of an apparent universal self-similar kinetics over a broad range of driving force. The results as well as the experimental technique are likely to be of significance to many slowly driven non-equilibrium systems from geophysics to material science which display avalanche dynamics.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0102>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/0811.0102.pdf>)