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from skcomplex.systems import catalog, create_simulation, create_system, describe

names = [entry.name for entry in catalog(field='biology/ecology')]
entry = describe('lotka_volterra')
system = create_system('lotka_volterra')

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biology/collective_behaviour

biology/ecology

biology/epidemiology

biology/evolution

biology/neuroscience

biology/oncology

biology/physiology

biology/systems_biology

chemistry/kinetics

chemistry/pattern_formation

  • Brusselator fields brusselator: The Brusselator reaction-diffusion system from small noise around its steady state (a, b / a).
  • Gray-Scott gray_scott: The Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion system, seeded in its middle, which grows spots that replicate.
  • Schnakenberg schnakenberg: The Schnakenberg reaction-diffusion system, which forms Turing patterns from noise when Dv >> Du.

computer_science/automata

  • Adding machine (odometer) adding_machine: The adding machine r → r + 1 on the q-adic integers, the odometer acting on the q-ary tree.
  • Adleman DNA computation of a Hamiltonian path dna_computation: Adleman's DNA computation of a Hamiltonian path, by random ligation of edge oligos in a test tube.
  • Automata on the Grigorchuk group grigorchuk_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Grigorchuk group, a group of intermediate growth.
  • Automata on the free group free_group_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the free group, a tree in which every cell follows its neighbours.
  • Baumslag-Solitar groups baumslag_solitar_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Baumslag-Solitar group BS(m, n), of exponential growth.
  • Context-free subshift context_free_subshift: A Markov chain on the context-free subshift, ternary rings where every block 0 1^h 2^k 0 has h = k.
  • Diffusion automaton diffusion_automaton: A cellular automaton of diffusion, c' = c + r Σ (c_neighbour - c), started from a square of ones.
  • Elementary automata elementary_automaton: An elementary cellular automaton by its Wolfram number, started from a single live cell by default.
  • Even and S-gap subshifts gap_subshift: The shift on the S-gap subshift, the binary sequences whose runs of zeros between ones lie in S.
  • Fredkin's self-replicating parity automaton fredkin_replicator: Fredkin's parity automaton, whose local law copies any initial pattern into translated replicas.
  • Game of Life game_of_life: Conway's Game of Life, or another life-like rule, on a torus.
  • Game of Life on a rewired small-world network small_world_life: Conway's Game of Life on a small-world network rewired from the Moore lattice of a torus.
  • Group-valued difference automaton group_difference_automaton: The automaton τ(x)(n) = x(n)^-1 x(n + 1) whose alphabet is a finite group, on a ring.
  • Heisenberg heisenberg_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the discrete Heisenberg group, of polynomial growth of degree 4.
  • Highlife and the planar automaton zoo highlife: HighLife, B36/S23, or any other life-like automaton of the planar zoo by its rule, on a torus.
  • Involutive automaton involutive_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is its own inverse, with the minimal memory set {-1, 0, ..., n}.
  • Lamplighter lamplighter_automaton: The parity automaton on a ball of the lamplighter group, a linear rule over the field of two elements.
  • Langton's ant langtons_ant: Langton's ant, which wanders chaotically for about 10,000 steps before it builds a periodic highway.
  • Lenia and its expanded universe lenia: Lenia, a continuous automaton whose ring-kernel convolutions grow gliding, lifelike solitons.
  • Life in a tree life_in_a_tree: The Game of Life on the free group F4, a tree of degree 8, surjective but not pre-injective.
  • Linear automata over rings linear_ring_automaton: The discrete Laplacian as a linear automaton on a ring, over the field of modulus elements.
  • Morse subshift morse_subshift: The Thue-Morse substitution 0 → 01, 1 → 10, whose words make the language of the Morse subshift.
  • Muller's pre-injective non-surjective automaton on F2 muller_automaton: Muller's automaton on the free group F2, pre-injective but not surjective.
  • Nilpotent automaton of class n nilpotent_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is nilpotent of class n: n steps send every configuration to 0.
  • Noisy automata noisy_automata: An elementary cellular automaton whose outputs are flipped at random with a small probability.
  • Power-series automaton power_series_automaton: The automaton τ(x)(n) = x(n) - t x(n + 1) over the ring K[[t]] of formal power series on a ring.
  • Real quadratic automaton real_quadratic_automaton: The automaton τ(x)(n) = x(n + 1) - x(n)^2 over the reals on a ring.
  • Self-indexed shift over a group alphabet self_indexed_shift: The map τ(x)(g) = x(g · x(g)) over the group as alphabet, continuous and equivariant but no automaton.
  • Subshifts subshifts: A Markov chain on the golden mean shift, the configurations of a ring that never hold two adjacent ones.
  • Subtraction automaton over the naturals subtraction_automaton: The automaton τ(x)(n) = max(0, x(n) - x(n + 1)) over the naturals, whose image is not closed.
  • Surjective non-pre-injective linear automaton on F2 surjective_linear_automaton: A linear automaton over K^2 on the free group F2, surjective but not pre-injective.
  • Turing machine (three-state busy beaver) turing_machine: A Turing machine, a head with an internal state that reads, writes, and moves on a tape of symbols.
  • Unbounded-alphabet automaton unbounded_alphabet_automaton: An additive automaton over the nonnegative integers, x'(n) = x(n - 1) + x(n), from a single 1.

computer_science/evolutionary_computation

computer_science/neural_networks

economics/econophysics

economics/finance

economics/innovation

economics/macroeconomics

economics/markets

economics/resources

  • Cocoa cocoa: A cocoa production system, plantations that boom with their profit and bust with the insects they invite.
  • Crop livestock household crop_livestock_household: Bala's crop livestock model, a farming household that adds livestock rearing to its crop income.
  • Fishery with measurement errors fishery_measurement_errors: Independent fisheries whose quota is set from a measurement of the stock with a Gaussian error.
  • Food security systems food_security: A food security system, the rice self-sufficiency of a country under subsidy, research, and extension.
  • Harvesting farmers harvesting: A socio-ecological system of farmer agents harvesting a logistically regrowing resource.
  • Hilsa fishery hilsa_fishery: A hilsa fishery, the life cycle of a migratory fish that the catch of juveniles and spawners depletes.
  • Oil economy oil_economy: Meadows' oil economy, capital that grows on a nonrenewable resource and collapses as it runs out.
  • Optimal harvesting optimal_harvesting: A logistic resource harvested with the effort that maximises its discounted profit.
  • Renewable fishery with capital fishery_capital: Meadows' fishing fleet, capital that grows on a renewable resource and can overshoot it.
  • Rice land, population, and food security rice_food_balance: Bala's food security model, rice land that grows towards the land available against a growing population.
  • Tragedy of the meadow commons tragedy_of_the_commons: Herders whose cows graze a shared meadow, each adding cows while a cow pays, until the grass collapses.
  • Von Thünen land use von_thunen: A square plain around one market at its centre, whose every cell grows the crop of highest bid rent.

engineering/circuits

  • Chua double and multiple scrolls chua: Chua's circuit, whose double-scroll or multiscroll attractor is chaotic.
  • Circuits under periodic impulses impulsive_circuits: An RLC circuit driven by a periodic train of current impulses, L C x'' + R C x' + x = A Σ δ(t - k T).
  • Coupled Colpitts oscillators coupled_colpitts: Two detuned chaotic Colpitts oscillators coupled through the difference of their second variables.
  • Memristive mixed-mode oscillator memristive_mixed_mode_oscillator: A slow-fast circuit with a cubic flux-controlled memristor, whose oscillations mix two amplitudes.
  • Memristor oscillator memristor_oscillator: The simplest memristor oscillator: a capacitor, an inductor, and a memristor in series.
  • Modified Chua with mixed-mode oscillations mixed_mode_chua: A modified Chua circuit on three time scales, whose oscillations mix small and large amplitudes.
  • RLC circuit rlc_circuit: A series RLC circuit written as Kirchhoff's voltage law, L q'' + R q' + q / C = V cos(ω t).
  • Tunnel-diode oscillator tunnel_diode_oscillator: A tunnel-diode oscillator: an inductor and a capacitor in parallel with a negative-resistance diode.
  • Vibration energy harvester vibration_energy_harvester: A dual-mass piezoelectric harvester in a car suspension, driven by the roughness of the road.

engineering/control

engineering/mechatronics

engineering/power_systems

engineering/processes

  • Bathtub bathtub: A bathtub, one stock of water with an inflow from the faucet and an outflow through the drain.
  • Cascade classifier cascade_classifier: A cascade classifier, a column of stages that separates a narrow size class of particles by an air flow.
  • Food relief system food_relief: A food relief system, a pipeline that ships food to a warehouse and distributes it to people in need.
  • Grain storage system grain_storage: A retail grain store, whose orders through a supply line make its stock oscillate.
  • Irrigation system irrigation: An irrigation system, a reservoir and an aquifer that keep the root zone of the crops supplied.
  • Rice milling system rice_milling: A rice milling system, a mill that buys paddy, mills it into rice and by-products, and sells them.
  • Solid waste system solid_waste: A solid waste system, the waste of a growing city collected, recycled, composted, and landfilled.

engineering/robotics

  • Light-emitting robots with sensory delay light_emitting_robots: Light-emitting robots, which cluster when they sense the light of the others late and spread when early.
  • Light-sensitive robots with sensory delay light_seeking_robots: Light-sensitive robots in a circular well, whose sensory delay decides whether they gather in the light.
  • Swarmtaxis swarmtaxis: The swarmtaxis algorithm, which moves a swarm of robots towards a beacon that only some of them see.

engineering/traffic

  • Car following with delay delayed_car_following: A chain of cars that react to the speed difference to the car ahead after a reaction time.
  • Charbonneau traffic charbonneau_traffic: Charbonneau's traffic system, where random braking of single drivers sets off traffic jams.
  • GKT non-local traffic gkt_traffic: The gas-kinetic-based traffic system, where drivers brake on the traffic at an interaction point ahead.
  • Intelligent driver system intelligent_driver_system: The intelligent driver system of cars on a ring road.
  • Kerner-Konhäuser system kerner_konhauser: The Kerner-Konhäuser system, where viscous traffic flow forms dense moving clusters.
  • Langevin car-following toward a density-dependent speed langevin_traffic: Cars on a ring road whose speeds relax with noise towards a desired speed set by the local density.
  • Lighthill-Whitham-Richards lighthill_whitham_richards: The Lighthill-Whitham-Richards system, the conservation of cars with the Greenshields speed law.
  • Moment equations of Langevin traffic with a jam instability traffic_density_equation: The density and flux equations of Langevin traffic on a ring road, whose uniform flow breaks into jams.
  • Nagel-Schreckenberg nagel_schreckenberg: The Nagel-Schreckenberg traffic system on a ring road, where jams emerge above a critical density.
  • Optimal velocity optimal_velocity: The optimal velocity system of cars on a ring road, where uniform flow breaks into stop-and-go waves.
  • Payne system payne: The Payne system, where the speed of traffic relaxes to the Greenshields speed and anticipates density.
  • Ridesharing ridesharing: Riders who request trips on a city grid and cabs that a stable matching sends to them.
  • Ring-road driver agents ring_road_drivers: Drivers on a circular highway, where small random errors of speed set off traffic jams.

mathematics/dynamical_systems

  • Baker baker_map: The generalized baker map, which stretches the unit square along x and stacks the two pieces in y.
  • Bernoulli doubling map doubling_map: An ensemble of the doubling map x' = 2x (mod 1), iterated exactly on fractions with an odd denominator.
  • Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian map cdn_map: The Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian map x' = exp(-alpha² x²) + β of an interval.
  • Cat map cat_map: Arnold's cat map (x, y) → (2x + y, x + y) (mod 1), an area-preserving hyperbolic map of the torus.
  • Circle circle_map: The sine circle map θ' = θ + Ω - K / (2π) sin 2πθ (mod 1), which locks into Arnold tongues.
  • Conservative Hénon map conservative_henon_map: Hénon's area-preserving quadratic map, a rotation by 2π nu with a quadratic kick.
  • Cubic chaotic map and its chaotic walk cubic_chaotic_map: Bertin's cubic chaotic map and the chaotic walk it drives, which spreads like a random walk.
  • Cusp normal forms cusp_form: The cusp normal form x' = β1 + β2 x - x³, bistable inside the cusp 27 β1² < 4 β2³.
  • Fermi-Ulam map fermi_ulam_map: The Fermi-Ulam map of a ball bouncing between a fixed wall and a wall that oscillates in time.
  • Finite-time blow-up finite_time_blow_up: Hyperbolic growth x' = a x^p, which diverges at the finite time x0^(1 - p) / (a (p - 1)) for p > 1.
  • Generalized tent map skew_tent_map: An ensemble of the skew tent map, whose density relaxes to the uniform invariant density for any a.
  • Hopf hopf_form: The Hopf normal form, whose focus gives birth to a limit cycle of radius √(-μ / a) as μ crosses 0.
  • Hyperchaotic four-dimensional Rössler flow hyperchaotic_rossler: Rössler's four-dimensional flow, hyperchaotic with two positive Lyapunov exponents for its defaults.
  • Hénon map henon_map: The Hénon map x' = 1 - a x² + y, y' = b x, with a fractal strange attractor for its defaults.
  • Ikeda delay equation ikeda: The Ikeda delay equation x' = a sin x(t - tau) in the form of Dilão (2023, Exercise 6.4).
  • Intermittency maps intermittency_map: The Pomeau-Manneville map x' = x + x^z (mod 1), whose long laminar phases near 0 end in chaotic bursts.
  • Langford attractor langford: The Langford flow, a rotation whose torus breaks into a strange attractor for the defaults of Dilão.
  • Logistic map logistic_map: The logistic map x_{t+1} = r x_t (1 - x_t), which reaches chaos through period doubling as r grows.
  • Lorenz lorenz: The Lorenz-63 system of convection, chaotic on a butterfly-shaped attractor for its standard parameters.
  • Lozi map lozi_map: The Lozi map x' = 1 + y - a |x|, y' = b x, the piecewise linear Hénon map with a strange attractor.
  • Newton-Raphson map newton_raphson_map: Newton's method for z³ = 1 in the complex plane, z' = (2z³ + 1) / (3z²), in real coordinates.
  • Nosé-Hoover oscillator nose_hoover: The Nosé-Hoover oscillator x' = y, y' = y z - x, z' = 1 - y², with tori next to a chaotic sea.
  • Quadratic system with a slow manifold and a finite Koopman embedding koopman_slow_manifold: The quadratic flow x1' = mu x1, x2' = lam (x2 - x1^2), with a slow manifold and a linear embedding.
  • Rössler rossler: The Rössler system, a chaotic flow with one folded band for its standard parameters.
  • Rössler with an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter ou_driven_rossler: The Rössler flow driven through its bifurcations by a slow Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter.
  • Saddle-node saddle_node_form: The saddle-node normal form x' = μ - x², whose two equilibria ±√μ meet and vanish at μ = 0.
  • Sprott flow with a conservative torus and a chaotic attractor sprott_mixed_flow: Sprott's flow with a conservative torus and a dissipative chaotic attractor side by side.
  • Sprott jerk sprott_jerk: Sprott's jerk equation x''' = -A x'' - x' + |x| - 1, chaotic near A = 0.6.
  • Standard standard_map: The Chirikov standard map p' = p + K sin θ, θ' = θ + p', with global chaos above K ≈ 0.9716.
  • Subcritical Hopf normal form subcritical_hopf_form: The subcritical Hopf normal form, where a stable focus coexists with a stable limit cycle.
  • Takens-Bogdanov takens_bogdanov_form: The Takens-Bogdanov normal form x' = y, y' = β1 + β2 x + x² + s x y, where a saddle-node meets a Hopf.
  • Tent tent_map: The tent map x' = μ min(x, 1 - x), chaotic with Lyapunov exponent ln μ for μ above 1.
  • Thomas cyclically symmetric attractor thomas: The Thomas flow x' = -a x + sin y with its cyclic permutations, chaotic for a = 0.18.
  • Towel maps towel_map: Rössler's towel map, a three-dimensional map with two positive Lyapunov exponents.

mathematics/fractals

  • Cantor cantor_set: The Cantor set as the substitution of every interval by its two outer parts.
  • Iterated function systems by the chaos game chaos_game: Points that draw the attractor of an iterated function system by the chaos game.
  • Julia sets julia: The filled Julia set of z -> z^2 + c, the starting points whose orbit stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5).
  • Koch koch_curve: The Koch curve as the L-system F → F+F--F+F drawn by a turtle.
  • Mandelbrot set mandelbrot: The Mandelbrot set, the points c whose orbit of z -> z^2 + c from 0 stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5).
  • Random complex square-root function system inverse_julia: The random function system z -> ±√(z - omega), whose points settle on the Julia set of z² + omega.
  • Sierpiński substitutions sierpinski_substitution: The Sierpiński triangle or carpet as the substitution of a polygon by scaled copies of itself.

mathematics/fractional_dynamics

  • Fractional Lorenz fractional_lorenz: The fractional Lorenz flow of Grigorenko and Grigorenko, chaotic for orders close enough to 1.
  • Fractional Van der Pol fractional_van_der_pol: The fractional Van der Pol oscillator D^alpha x = y, D^alpha y = mu (1 - x^2) y - x.
  • Fractional damped oscillator fractional_oscillator: The fractional damped oscillator D^alpha x = v, D^alpha v = -omega^2 x - 2 gamma v.
  • Fractional relaxation fractional_relaxation: Fractional relaxation D^alpha x = -lambda x, which decays as the Mittag-Leffler function E_alpha.

mathematics/networks

mathematics/stochastic_processes

  • Ageing random walk ageing_random_walk: Ageing random walks, whose up steps become rarer the more of them a walker has taken.
  • Bernoulli process bernoulli_process: Independent Bernoulli processes, one success or failure per step, whose success counts are binomial.
  • Birth-death process and M/M/1 queue birth_death_queue: Independent M/M/1 queues, birth-death processes with constant arrival and service rates.
  • Cascading sample-space-reducing process cascading_sample_space_reducing: Cascading sample-space-reducing processes, whose visits follow the power law i^(-mu) for any mu.
  • Exponential growth observed at exponential random times exponential_growth_at_random_times: Exponential growth observed at exponentially distributed times, whose observed values follow a power law.
  • Fragmentation fragmentation: The random fragmentation of an object of integer size, whose fragments keep breaking into smaller ones.
  • Galton-Watson branching galton_watson: A Galton-Watson branching process with Poisson offspring, one generation per step.
  • Hidden Markov source hidden_markov_source: A hidden Markov source, whose symbols are emitted at random from the states of a hidden Markov chain.
  • Markov source markov_source: A Markov source, a sequence of symbols in which each symbol depends on the one before it.
  • Ornstein-Uhlenbeck with weakening restoring force weakening_ornstein_uhlenbeck: Brownian particles held by a restoring force that weakens with distance.
  • Persistent random walk persistent_random_walk: Walkers on the integers that keep the direction of their last step with a probability.
  • Poisson process poisson_process: Independent Poisson processes, counters that grow by one at exponentially distributed waiting times.
  • Pólya urn polya_urn: Independent Pólya urns, whose share of red balls converges to a random limit with a beta distribution.
  • Random two-branch interval map random_branch_map: Orbits of a random map of [0, 1] with the two branches (1 + x) / 2 and mu x².
  • Random walk with autoregressive velocity random_walk_with_memory: Random walks whose velocity is an autoregressive process, x ← x + v and v ← alpha v + xi.
  • Random walks random_walk: Independent walkers on the integers that step at random times, a continuous-time random walk.
  • Sample-space-reducing process sample_space_reducing: Sample-space-reducing processes, whose state visits follow Zipf's law 1 / i for lam = 1.
  • Stochastic on-off intermittency on_off_intermittency: Stochastic on-off intermittency, dx/dt = (epsilon + xi) x - x^3 with Stratonovich white noise xi.

physics/active_matter

physics/celestial_mechanics

physics/climate

physics/cosmology

physics/criticality

physics/fluids

  • BGK bgk_equation: The BGK equation of the Sod shock tube over one position and one velocity axis.
  • Boltzmann boltzmann_equation: The Boltzmann equation of Maxwell molecules over one position and two velocity axes.
  • Burgers burgers: The inviscid Burgers equation on a periodic interval of length 2 pi, whose sine steepens into a shock.
  • Bénard-Marangoni convection with a free, thermocapillary surface benard_marangoni: The order-parameter equation of Bénard-Marangoni convection, which forms hexagonal cells.
  • Decaying turbulence decaying_turbulence: Decaying two-dimensional turbulence from a random vorticity field on a periodic square of side 2 pi.
  • Discrete-velocity Boltzmann gas of Carleman discrete_velocity_boltzmann: The Carleman discrete-velocity Boltzmann equation on a periodic line, from a pulse of right movers.
  • Enskog equations enskog: The local Enskog equation, the Boltzmann equation with the contact value of the pair correlation of disks.
  • FHP lattice gas fhp_lattice_gas: The FHP-I lattice gas on a periodic triangular lattice, with a dense disc that spreads into the gas.
  • HPP lattice gas hpp_lattice_gas: The HPP lattice gas on a periodic square lattice, whose particles move along four directions and collide.
  • Kuramoto-Sivashinsky kuramoto_sivashinsky: The Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation u_t = -u u_x - u_xx - u_xxxx, spatiotemporally chaotic.
  • Rayleigh-Bénard rayleigh_benard: Rayleigh-Bénard convection between free-slip walls, from a small perturbation of the critical mode.
  • Shallow-water dam break shallow_water: The shallow-water dam break: still water at two depths that a removed dam separated at the middle.
  • Vlasov vlasov_equation: The Vlasov-Poisson equation of electrons over a neutralizing background, on a periodic position axis.
  • Wave-number conservation and wave breaking wave_breaking: The kinematic wave equation of deep-water wave trains on a periodic interval of length 2 pi.

physics/heat

  • Cooling coffee cooling_coffee: A cup of coffee whose temperature relaxes to that of the room, T' = -k (T - T_room).
  • Heat diffusion heat_diffusion: Heat diffusing on a plate from a hot square in its middle, du/dt = D laplacian(u).
  • Heat on an L-shaped domain heat_l_shape: Heat on the L-shaped domain with fixed boundary temperatures, discretised by linear finite elements.

physics/mechanics

  • Ballistic pendulum ballistic_pendulum: A bullet that sticks in the block of a pendulum at rest, which then swings up.
  • Beam-beam map beam_beam_map: The beam-beam map of a particle of an accelerator beam that meets the opposite beam once every turn.
  • Bouncing ball bouncing_ball: A ball that falls under gravity and bounces off the floor, losing speed by a coefficient of restitution.
  • Circular billiard circular_billiard: A particle moving freely inside a circle and reflecting specularly off its wall.
  • Coupled pendulums coupled_pendulums: Two pendulums whose bobs are joined by a spring, which pass their energy back and forth.
  • Double pendulum double_pendulum: A double pendulum, a pendulum hanging from the bob of another, written as its two Lagrange equations.
  • Driven damped oscillator driven_damped_oscillator: A mass on a spring with damping and a periodic force, m x'' = -k x - c x' + F cos(ω t).
  • Gyroscope in a gimbal gimballed_gyroscope: A gyroscope in a gimbal: a rotor in an inner ring that turns in an outer ring about a fixed axis.
  • Harmonic oscillator harmonic_oscillator: A particle on a spring, optionally damped.
  • Huygens clocks and pendulums on coupled supports huygens_clocks: Pendulum clocks on supports joined by springs, which synchronize through the motion of the supports.
  • Magnetic pendulum magnetic_pendulum: A magnetic bob on a string swinging above magnets on a circle, which comes to rest at one of them.
  • Mass-spring oscillator with static and Coulomb friction friction_oscillator: A mass on a linear spring with static, Coulomb, and viscous friction, m x'' + c x' + k x + f = 0.
  • Newton's cradle newtons_cradle: Newton's cradle: pendulum balls in a row that pass momentum along by elastic collisions.
  • Particle in the well k x^2 e^-x particle_in_a_well: A particle moving without friction in the potential U(x) = k x² e^-x.
  • Pendulum pendulum: A pendulum, whose angle follows Newton's second law m l θ'' = -m g sin θ.
  • Pendulum on a sliding cart cart_pendulum: A pendulum hanging from a cart that slides without friction along a horizontal track.
  • Pendulum with a vertically or horizontally oscillating pivot parametric_pendulum: A pendulum whose suspension point oscillates vertically or horizontally, with acceleration ε g cos Ω t.
  • Projectile projectile: A particle launched under uniform gravity, optionally slowed by linear drag.
  • Rotating balls on rods rotating_balls_on_rods: Two balls on rods that turn about a vertical axis and conserve their angular momentum.
  • Rotating swing rotating_swing: A rotating swing: chairs on chains hanging from the rods of a stand that turns about a vertical axis.
  • Two-mass spring-damper between walls two_mass_spring_damper: Two masses between two walls, tied to the walls and to each other by springs, with dampers and forces.

physics/nonlinear_oscillators

  • Adler equation adler_equation: The Adler equation Δφ' = Δω + ε sin Δφ for the phase difference of an oscillator and its drive.
  • Duffing duffing: The forced Duffing oscillator x'' = -delta x' - alpha x - beta x^3 + gamma cos(omega t), chaotic here.
  • Dynamical billiards of Sinai, mushroom, and open three-disk shapes billiards: A particle moving freely on a billiard table and reflecting specularly off its walls.
  • Forced Toda oscillator forced_toda: The forced Toda oscillator x'' + d x' + e^x - 1 = a sin(omega t), a passive asymmetric oscillator.
  • Forced Van der Pol forced_van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillator driven by a periodic force, x'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x + A cos(ω t).
  • Hénon-Heiles henon_heiles: The Hénon-Heiles system of a star in a galactic potential, whose motion is chaotic at higher energies.
  • Nuclear quadrupole vibrations nuclear_quadrupole: The quadrupole vibrations of a nuclear surface, a Hamiltonian system of two degrees of freedom.
  • Strongly nonlinear oscillator under periodic impulses impulsive_oscillator: An oscillator kicked by a periodic train of impulses of alternating sign.
  • Stuart-Landau stuart_landau: The Stuart-Landau oscillator z' = (μ + i ω) z - (1 + i β) |z|² z, the normal form of a Hopf bifurcation.
  • Van der Pol van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillator x'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x, which settles on a limit cycle for μ > 0.

physics/oceanography

physics/pattern_formation

physics/seismology

physics/soft_matter

physics/statistical_mechanics

  • Asymmetric exclusion process with open boundaries asep: The asymmetric simple exclusion process on an open line, in continuous time.
  • Bouchaud trap system trap_system: The Bouchaud trap system, walkers that escape from traps of exponentially distributed depths.
  • Contact process contact_process: The contact process on a periodic lattice, which survives above a critical infection rate near 1.65.
  • Continuum percolation continuum_percolation: Overlapping disks at uniform positions in a square, whose clusters percolate near a filling of 1.13.
  • Diffusion-limited aggregation diffusion_limited_aggregation: Diffusion-limited aggregation on a periodic grid, where random walkers stick to a seed at the center.
  • Discrete master equation discrete_master_equation: The discrete-time master equation of states on a ring, which relaxes to the Boltzmann distribution.
  • Dissipative zero-range process on a tree dissipative_zero_range: The dissipative zero-range process on a tree, with energy injected at the root and lost at the leaves.
  • Edwards-Anderson spin glass edwards_anderson: The Edwards-Anderson spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with quenched random bonds.
  • Ehrenfest urn system of two boxes ehrenfest_urn: The Ehrenfest urn system, balls moved one at a time between two boxes, which relaxes to equal counts.
  • Fully connected Ising system with Glauber dynamics curie_weiss: The fully connected Ising system with Glauber dynamics, ordered below the critical temperature T_c = J.
  • Fully connected branching and annihilation absorbing_birth_death: The fully connected branching and annihilation process, active above kappa = nu until it dies out.
  • Ideal gas ideal_gas: An ideal gas of non-interacting molecules in a reflecting box.
  • Ising ising: The two-dimensional Ising system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature 2 / ln(1 + sqrt 2).
  • Ising on a graph graph_ising: The Ising system on a graph, ordered below a critical temperature set by the degrees of the nodes.
  • Landau mean-field relaxation landau_relaxation: The relaxation of a Landau order parameter, to sqrt(a (Tc - T) / b) below Tc and to 0 above it.
  • Lennard-Jones fluid lennard_jones_fluid: Lennard-Jones particles in a periodic square box, optionally held at a temperature by a thermostat.
  • Mattis spin glass mattis_spin_glass: The Mattis spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with couplings J_ij = J xi_i xi_j of a pattern xi.
  • Potts potts: The q-state Potts system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature 1 / ln(1 + sqrt q).
  • Q2R reversible Ising automaton q2r: The Q2R automaton, a reversible, energy-conserving Ising dynamics on a periodic lattice of even sides.
  • Quantum Heisenberg system quantum_heisenberg: A chain of spins one half with the XXZ Hamiltonian, a field, and optional dephasing.
  • Random energy system random_energy_system: The random energy system, 2^N quenched Gaussian energies of variance N / 2 at a temperature.
  • Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass sherrington_kirkpatrick: The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass with Glauber dynamics, frozen below the temperature T_c = J.
  • Site percolation site_percolation: Site percolation probed by a fire lit along the top row, which spans the lattice above p_c = 0.5927.
  • TASEP tasep: The totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with parallel update, on an open line or a ring.
  • Two-phase zone exchange two_phase_zone_exchange: Independent zones of a two-phase apparatus, each exchanging particles with the rest of the apparatus.
  • XY xy: The XY system of planar spins on a torus, with vortices that bind below the Kosterlitz-Thouless point.
  • Zero-range process zero_range_process: The zero-range process on a ring, which condenses above the critical density 1 / (b - 2) for b > 2.

physics/synchronization

physics/waves

social/cooperation

social/crowds

social/language

social/opinion_dynamics

social/organizations

  • Ajani's Choice ajanis_choice: Chesney's Ajani's Choice, migrant farm workers and employers among whom underpayment emerges.
  • Barabási priority queues priority_queues: The Barabási priority queue, whose waiting times follow a power law as the choice becomes greedy.
  • Bonabeau hierarchies bonabeau_hierarchies: The Bonabeau system, where a hierarchy of strengths emerges above a critical density of agents.
  • Brothel movement system trafficking: The brothel movement system, where victims moved between brothels leave traces in bills and train trips.
  • Container model of human mobility container_mobility: The container model of human mobility of Alessandretti, Aslak, and Lehmann, trajectories across scales.
  • Drift to low performance drift_to_low_performance: Meadows' drift to low performance trap, eroding goals that follow a pessimistic view of the performance.
  • Employment takeover employment_takeover: The employment takeover system on a periodic checkerboard, with half of each kind coloured at random.
  • Escalation escalation: Meadows' escalation trap, two parties that each want to exceed the other's stock by a margin.
  • Exploration and preferential return exploration_preferential_return: The exploration and preferential return model of human mobility of Song and coauthors.
  • Gravity interaction system of urban scaling gravity_urban_scaling: The residents of a city at uniform positions in a disc, each interacting with the others as r^-gamma.
  • Hora and Tempus watchmakers watchmakers: Simon's fable of the watchmakers Hora and Tempus, told by Meadows, with and without stable subassemblies.
  • Insider sabotage insider_sabotage: The insider sabotage system of employees whose risk of sabotage builds up over the days of a year.
  • Namrata's Family, diffusion of working conditions in supply chains supply_chain_diffusion: Chesney's Namrata's Family, buyers who push good working conditions down their supply network.
  • Obesity system obesity: The obesity system of adults who eat near home and work, one step per day.
  • Policy resistance policy_resistance: Meadows' policy resistance trap, one stock pulled by three actors toward inconsistent goals.
  • Shifting the burden shifting_the_burden: Meadows' shifting the burden trap, a quick fix that relieves a symptom and erodes the system's capability.
  • Success to the successful success_to_the_successful: Meadows' success to the successful trap, two competitors that share a budget by their past success.
  • The Kauai population system on region layers kauai_population: One agent per resident of the census regions of a map, moving between home, work, and favourite places.
  • Urban scaling of interactions urban_scaling_interactions: A city that grows by residents and internal links, so its meetings grow faster than its population.

social/segregation

  • Schelling schelling: A Schelling segregation system on a grid with at most one resident per cell.
  • Stochastic Schelling stochastic_schelling: The stochastic Schelling system of agents moving between blocks, which segregates above beta = 2.

social/spreading

By tag

Achlioptas process

B-tipping

Belousov-Zhabotinsky

  • Oregonator oregonator: The scaled Oregonator, the reduction of the FKN mechanism of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction.

COMETS

ENSO

  • ENSO delay oscillator enso: The delayed oscillator of El Niño of Suarez and Schopf, dT/dt = T - T^3 - alpha T(t - delta).

Edgeworth box

El Niño

  • ENSO delay oscillator enso: The delayed oscillator of El Niño of Suarez and Schopf, dT/dt = T - T^3 - alpha T(t - delta).

Gaia

  • Daisyworld daisyworld: Daisyworld, where white and black daisies regulate the temperature of their planet through its albedo.

Garden of Eden

Gompertz

HER2

Hill function

  • Goodwin oscillator goodwin_oscillator: The Goodwin oscillator, a chain of stages whose last one represses the synthesis of the first.

IL-2

Koopman operator

L-system

  • Koch koch_curve: The Koch curve as the L-system F → F+F--F+F drawn by a turtle.

Langmuir-Hinshelwood

Laplacian

  • Linear automata over rings linear_ring_automaton: The discrete Laplacian as a linear automaton on a ring, over the field of modulus elements.

Lotka-Volterra

Markov chain

  • Subshifts subshifts: A Markov chain on the golden mean shift, the configurations of a ring that never hold two adjacent ones.

Michaelis-Menten

Monte Carlo

  • Context-free subshift context_free_subshift: A Markov chain on the context-free subshift, ternary rings where every block 0 1^h 2^k 0 has h = k.
  • Edwards-Anderson spin glass edwards_anderson: The Edwards-Anderson spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with quenched random bonds.
  • Ising ising: The two-dimensional Ising system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature 2 / ln(1 + sqrt 2).
  • Ising on a graph graph_ising: The Ising system on a graph, ordered below a critical temperature set by the degrees of the nodes.
  • Mattis spin glass mattis_spin_glass: The Mattis spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with couplings J_ij = J xi_i xi_j of a pattern xi.
  • Potts potts: The q-state Potts system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature 1 / ln(1 + sqrt q).
  • XY xy: The XY system of planar spins on a torus, with vortices that bind below the Kosterlitz-Thouless point.

N-tipping

NK system

  • NK fitness landscapes nk_landscape: Agents that climb Kauffman's NK fitness landscape from random genomes until they reach local peaks.

Ornstein-Uhlenbeck

PD-1

PSA

Perron eigenvalue

R-tipping

Richards

Rössler

S-gap

  • Even and S-gap subshifts gap_subshift: The shift on the S-gap subshift, the binary sequences whose runs of zeros between ones lie in S.

S-system

SteadyCom

Thue-Morse

  • Morse subshift morse_subshift: The Thue-Morse substitution 0 → 01, 1 → 10, whose words make the language of the Morse subshift.

Turing

  • Brusselator fields brusselator: The Brusselator reaction-diffusion system from small noise around its steady state (a, b / a).
  • Schnakenberg schnakenberg: The Schnakenberg reaction-diffusion system, which forms Turing patterns from noise when Dv >> Du.

Vroman effect

absorbing state

absorbing states

  • Fixed-energy sandpile fixed_energy_sandpile: The fixed-energy sandpile, a Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld pile with no drive and no loss on a periodic lattice.

acausal components

  • DC motor with an inertia dc_motor: A DC motor whose armature circuit of components drives an inertia on a Lagrangian coordinate.
  • Heated room with a thermostat heated_room: A room assembled from thermal and electrical components, heated under a thermostat with hysteresis.

accelerator

  • Beam-beam map beam_beam_map: The beam-beam map of a particle of an accelerator beam that meets the opposite beam once every turn.

active gel

active matter

active turbulence

  • Active nematic and polar gels active_gels: An active gel, a nematic tensor or a polarisation transported in the Stokes flow of its own stresses.

activity-driven

adaptation

adaptive delays

adaptive network

adaptive quotes

addiction

  • Shifting the burden shifting_the_burden: Meadows' shifting the burden trap, a quick fix that relieves a symptom and erodes the system's capability.

additive

  • Unbounded-alphabet automaton unbounded_alphabet_automaton: An additive automaton over the nonnegative integers, x'(n) = x(n - 1) + x(n), from a single 1.

adjacent possible

adoption

  • Fixed-line phone adoption phone_adoption: Hamill and Gilbert's adoption of fixed-line phones by British households from 1951.

adoptive therapy

age structure

  • Fibonacci rabbits fibonacci_rabbits: Fibonacci's rabbits, N_{t+1} = N_t + N_{t-1}, where every pair older than one month breeds a new pair.

ageing

  • Ageing random walk ageing_random_walk: Ageing random walks, whose up steps become rarer the more of them a walker has taken.

agents

aggregation

  • Diffusion-limited aggregation diffusion_limited_aggregation: Diffusion-limited aggregation on a periodic grid, where random walkers stick to a seed at the center.
  • Keller-Segel chemotaxis keller_segel: The Keller-Segel system of cells that diffuse and climb the gradient of a chemical they secrete.
  • Linear network herding network_herding: Agents whose linear choices herd on the past choices of the agents they are linked to.

aging

  • Bouchaud trap system trap_system: The Bouchaud trap system, walkers that escape from traps of exponentially distributed depths.

agriculture

  • Cocoa cocoa: A cocoa production system, plantations that boom with their profit and bust with the insects they invite.
  • Crop livestock household crop_livestock_household: Bala's crop livestock model, a farming household that adds livestock rearing to its crop income.
  • Food security systems food_security: A food security system, the rice self-sufficiency of a country under subsidy, research, and extension.
  • Grain storage system grain_storage: A retail grain store, whose orders through a supply line make its stock oscillate.
  • Irrigation system irrigation: An irrigation system, a reservoir and an aquifer that keep the root zone of the crops supplied.
  • Rice land, population, and food security rice_food_balance: Bala's food security model, rice land that grows towards the land available against a growing population.
  • Rice milling system rice_milling: A rice milling system, a mill that buys paddy, mills it into rice and by-products, and sells them.

alignment

allometry

amplification

amplitude death

androgen

androgen receptor

angiogenesis

angular momentum

  • Rotating balls on rods rotating_balls_on_rods: Two balls on rods that turn about a vertical axis and conserve their angular momentum.

anisotropy

annealing

anomalous diffusion

  • Annealed transient time motion annealed_transient_time_motion: Annealed transient time motion, Brownian walkers whose diffusion coefficient changes at random times.
  • Continuous-time random walk continuous_time_random_walk: The continuous-time random walk, Gaussian jumps after waiting times with the tail tau^(-1 - alpha).
  • Diffusion in a speckle field diffusion_in_a_speckle_field: Brownian particles in a random speckle field, trapped at hotspots for longer as the field grows stronger.
  • Fractional Brownian motion fractional_brownian_motion: Fractional Brownian motion, dx = sqrt(2 D) dB_H, with <x^2> = 2 D t^(2 H) along every axis.
  • Fully biased walk among quenched broad traps biased_trap_walk: Walkers that hop always to the right through quenched traps with broadly distributed trapping times.
  • Lévy walk levy_walk: The Lévy walk, flights at constant speed in random directions for times with the tail tau^(-1 - sigma).
  • Scaled Brownian motion scaled_brownian_motion: Scaled Brownian motion, dx = sqrt(2 K alpha (t + t0)^(alpha - 1)) dW, with <x^2> ~ 2 K t^alpha.
  • Superdiffusive Levy flight levy_flight: The Lévy flight, a walk whose jumps have lengths with the tail l^(-1 - mu) in random directions.

anomalous relaxation

  • Fractional relaxation fractional_relaxation: Fractional relaxation D^alpha x = -lambda x, which decays as the Mittag-Leffler function E_alpha.

ant

  • Langton's ant langtons_ant: Langton's ant, which wanders chaotically for about 10,000 steps before it builds a periodic highway.

ant colony optimization

anti-angiogenic therapy

antiangiogenic therapy

antibody

anticipation

antigenicity

ants

aquaculture

  • Penaeid shrimp growth penaeid_shrimp: The growth of one penaeid shrimp from the juvenile stage, forced by the food and the water temperature.

arbitrage

area preserving

  • Beam-beam map beam_beam_map: The beam-beam map of a particle of an accelerator beam that meets the opposite beam once every turn.
  • Conservative Hénon map conservative_henon_map: Hénon's area-preserving quadratic map, a rotation by 2π nu with a quadratic kick.
  • Fermi-Ulam map fermi_ulam_map: The Fermi-Ulam map of a ball bouncing between a fixed wall and a wall that oscillates in time.

arms race

  • Escalation escalation: Meadows' escalation trap, two parties that each want to exceed the other's stock by a margin.

arnold tongues

  • Circle circle_map: The sine circle map θ' = θ + Ω - K / (2π) sin 2πθ (mod 1), which locks into Arnold tongues.

artificial life

assembly theory

asset

asset pricing

associative memory

assortativity

asynchronous

atmosphere

  • Lorenz-84 lorenz_84: Lorenz-84, the general circulation reduced to a westerly jet and a travelling wave, chaotic for F = 8.
  • Lorenz-96 lorenz_96: Lorenz-96, dx_i/dt = (x_{i+1} - x_{i-2}) x_{i-1} - x_i + F on a ring of sites around a latitude circle.

attack

attractor

  • Chua double and multiple scrolls chua: Chua's circuit, whose double-scroll or multiscroll attractor is chaotic.
  • Hopfield network hopfield: A Hopfield network that stores patterns with Hebb's rule and recalls the first from a corrupted copy.

attractors

autocatalysis

  • Brusselator ODE brusselator_ode: The well-mixed Brusselator, which oscillates on a limit cycle when b > 1 + a**2.
  • Cubic autocatalysis cubic_autocatalysis: Cubic autocatalysis A + 2B -> 3B with the decay B -> C in a continuously fed reactor.
  • Hypercycles hypercycles: A network of self-replicating molecules whose catalysis keeps a set of them alive, a hypercycle.

autocatalytic set

autocatalytic sets

autoregressive

avalanches

  • Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld sandpile sandpile: The Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld sandpile on a lattice with open edges, started from random stable heights.
  • Charbonneau traffic charbonneau_traffic: Charbonneau's traffic system, where random braking of single drivers sets off traffic jams.
  • Manna sandpile manna_sandpile: The Manna sandpile, a stochastic sandpile of another universality class than Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld.
  • NKCS coevolution on coupled NK landscapes nkcs: The NKCS model of Kauffman and Johnsen, species climbing NK landscapes coupled to each other's genes.
  • Self-organized branching process self_organized_branching: The self-organized branching process of Zapperi, Lauritsen, and Stanley, a mean-field sandpile.
  • Solé-Manrubia extinctions sole_manrubia: The ecosystem of Solé and Manrubia, whose species go extinct when their dependencies turn against them.
  • Zhang sandpile zhang_sandpile: The Zhang sandpile, a continuous sandpile whose unstable sites give away all their energy.

backpropagation through time

bacteria

  • Run-and-tumble run_and_tumble: Run-and-tumble agents in a periodic square, which diffuse with v^2 (1 + q) / (4 (1 - q)) per step.

balancing feedback

  • Cooling coffee cooling_coffee: A cup of coffee whose temperature relaxes to that of the room, T' = -k (T - T_room).

bang-bang

banks

  • Firm and bank credit networks credit_networks: A credit market where firms sample banks and switch to cheaper lenders, and defaults hit the lenders.
  • Fractional-reserve banking fractional_reserve_banking: Customers and banks whose lending of excess reserves multiplies the base money by 1 / ratio.

barter

basins

  • Newton-Raphson map newton_raphson_map: Newton's method for z³ = 1 in the complex plane, z' = (2z³ + 1) / (3z²), in real coordinates.

batch culture

batteries

  • Faraday-disk charger faraday_disk: A battery charger driven by a Faraday disk generator whose own current strengthens its field.

bernoulli map

bernoulli shift

  • Bernoulli doubling map doubling_map: An ensemble of the doubling map x' = 2x (mod 1), iterated exactly on fractions with an odd denominator.

betweenness

bid rent

  • Von Thünen land use von_thunen: A square plain around one market at its centre, whose every cell grows the crop of highest bid rent.

bifurcation

  • Cusp normal forms cusp_form: The cusp normal form x' = β1 + β2 x - x³, bistable inside the cusp 27 β1² < 4 β2³.
  • Deformable active particles of Ohta and Ohkuma deformable_active_particles: Deformable self-propelled particles of Ohta and Ohkuma, which move straight or along circles.
  • Hopf hopf_form: The Hopf normal form, whose focus gives birth to a limit cycle of radius √(-μ / a) as μ crosses 0.
  • Saddle-node saddle_node_form: The saddle-node normal form x' = μ - x², whose two equilibria ±√μ meet and vanish at μ = 0.
  • Stochastic on-off intermittency on_off_intermittency: Stochastic on-off intermittency, dx/dt = (epsilon + xi) x - x^3 with Stratonovich white noise xi.
  • Subcritical Hopf normal form subcritical_hopf_form: The subcritical Hopf normal form, where a stable focus coexists with a stable limit cycle.
  • Takens-Bogdanov takens_bogdanov_form: The Takens-Bogdanov normal form x' = y, y' = β1 + β2 x + x² + s x y, where a saddle-node meets a Hopf.

bifurcation diagram

bijective

  • Power-series automaton power_series_automaton: The automaton τ(x)(n) = x(n) - t x(n + 1) over the ring K[[t]] of formal power series on a ring.

billiard

binomial

  • Two-phase zone exchange two_phase_zone_exchange: Independent zones of a two-phase apparatus, each exchanging particles with the rest of the apparatus.

biochemical systems theory

biodiversity

bioenergetics

  • Penaeid shrimp growth penaeid_shrimp: The growth of one penaeid shrimp from the juvenile stage, forced by the food and the water temperature.

biomodels

bipartite

bipartite network

birth-death

birth-death process

bistability

black holes

blinking traps

blocked states

boltzmann equation

bone marrow

boolean network

boom and bust

  • Cocoa cocoa: A cocoa production system, plantations that boom with their profit and bust with the insects they invite.

boundary

  • Ideal gas ideal_gas: An ideal gas of non-interacting molecules in a reflecting box.

bounded confidence

  • Deffuant bounded confidence deffuant: The Deffuant bounded confidence system, whose opinions settle into about 1 / (2 * confidence) clusters.
  • Hegselmann-Krause hegselmann_krause: The Hegselmann-Krause system, whose opinions freeze within a few steps into clusters about 2 ε apart.

bounded rationality

  • Brock-Hommes heuristic switching brock_hommes: Brock and Hommes' asset market with traders switching between fundamentalists and trend chasers.
  • El Farol el_farol: Arthur's El Farol bar problem, whose attendance self-organizes around the capacity.
  • El Farol with strategic group formation el_farol_coalitions: Collins' El Farol bar with strategic group formation, whose coalitions share their best strategy.

braess paradox

branching process

  • Galton-Watson branching galton_watson: A Galton-Watson branching process with Poisson offspring, one generation per step.
  • Self-organized branching process self_organized_branching: The self-organized branching process of Zapperi, Lauritsen, and Stanley, a mean-field sandpile.

breaking

breast cancer

bristles

brownian motion

bullwhip effect

  • Beer distribution game beer_game: Sterman's beer distribution game, a supply chain whose orders swing wider at every echelon upstream.

bump

  • Amari neural field amari_neural_field: The Amari neural field, whose lateral inhibition holds a stationary bump of activity.

bursting

  • Izhikevich izhikevich: The Izhikevich neuron, whose four parameters give regular spiking, bursting, chattering, and more.

bursts

business cycle

  • Multiplier-accelerator multiplier_accelerator: Samuelson's multiplier-accelerator, Y_{t+1} = c (1 + v) Y_t - c v Y_{t-1} + G.
  • Toy firm investment toy_firm_investment: Heterogeneous firms that invest out of past profits and sell at random prices, with entry and exit.

busy beaver

canards

cancer stem cells

capital

car following

carbon cycle

  • Rothman excitable carbon cycle carbon_cycle: Rothman's excitable carbon cycle, where a large enough perturbation of the ocean sets off an excursion.

carbon-13 flux analysis

cardiac

  • Aliev-Panfilov cardiac tissue aliev_panfilov: The Aliev-Panfilov system of cardiac tissue, started from a broken wave that curls into a spiral.

cardiovascular

  • Lumped cardiovascular system cardiovascular: A closed lumped system of the systemic circulation driven by a left ventricle of varying elastance.

carrying capacity

  • Carrying capacity of a meadow meadow_capacity: Cows that graze a summer of 25 weeks on a meadow, which shows how many cows the meadow can carry.

cascade

cascades

catalysis

celestial mechanics

  • Satellite transfer satellite_transfer: A satellite moved between Kepler orbits of equal angular momentum by radial thrust.

cell communication

cell complex

cell cycle

cell fate

cell quota

cell sorting

cellular automaton

  • Automata on the Grigorchuk group grigorchuk_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Grigorchuk group, a group of intermediate growth.
  • Automata on the free group free_group_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the free group, a tree in which every cell follows its neighbours.
  • Baumslag-Solitar groups baumslag_solitar_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Baumslag-Solitar group BS(m, n), of exponential growth.
  • Cyclic cellular automaton cyclic_cellular_automaton: Griffeath's cyclic cellular automaton, whose random levels organize into spiral waves.
  • Heisenberg heisenberg_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the discrete Heisenberg group, of polynomial growth of degree 4.
  • Involutive automaton involutive_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is its own inverse, with the minimal memory set {-1, 0, ..., n}.
  • Lamplighter lamplighter_automaton: The parity automaton on a ball of the lamplighter group, a linear rule over the field of two elements.
  • Life in a tree life_in_a_tree: The Game of Life on the free group F4, a tree of degree 8, surjective but not pre-injective.
  • Linear automata over rings linear_ring_automaton: The discrete Laplacian as a linear automaton on a ring, over the field of modulus elements.
  • Muller's pre-injective non-surjective automaton on F2 muller_automaton: Muller's automaton on the free group F2, pre-injective but not surjective.
  • Nilpotent automaton of class n nilpotent_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is nilpotent of class n: n steps send every configuration to 0.
  • Q2R reversible Ising automaton q2r: The Q2R automaton, a reversible, energy-conserving Ising dynamics on a periodic lattice of even sides.
  • Surjective non-pre-injective linear automaton on F2 surjective_linear_automaton: A linear automaton over K^2 on the free group F2, surjective but not pre-injective.

cellular potts

census

centrality

chaos

  • Aggregate-averaging synchronization of logistic and delay-coupled Bernoulli maps aggregate_averaging_synchronization: Two chaotic maps coupled by aggregate averaging, which synchronize their chaos for strong coupling.
  • Baker baker_map: The generalized baker map, which stretches the unit square along x and stacks the two pieces in y.
  • Beam-beam map beam_beam_map: The beam-beam map of a particle of an accelerator beam that meets the opposite beam once every turn.
  • Bernoulli doubling map doubling_map: An ensemble of the doubling map x' = 2x (mod 1), iterated exactly on fractions with an odd denominator.
  • Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian map cdn_map: The Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian map x' = exp(-alpha² x²) + β of an interval.
  • Cat map cat_map: Arnold's cat map (x, y) → (2x + y, x + y) (mod 1), an area-preserving hyperbolic map of the torus.
  • Chua double and multiple scrolls chua: Chua's circuit, whose double-scroll or multiscroll attractor is chaotic.
  • Complex Ginzburg-Landau complex_ginzburg_landau: The complex Ginzburg-Landau equation A_t = A + (1 + i b) laplacian(A) - (1 + i c) |A|^2 A.
  • Coupled Colpitts oscillators coupled_colpitts: Two detuned chaotic Colpitts oscillators coupled through the difference of their second variables.
  • Coupled Rössler and the master stability function coupled_rossler: Chaotic Rössler oscillators on a ring, diffusively coupled through their second variable.
  • Coupled map lattices on networks coupled_map_lattices_on_networks: Chaotic logistic maps on the nodes of a network, each pulled towards the mean of its neighbours.
  • Coupled soil and deep temperature maps soil_temperature: The coupled maps of the soil surface temperature and the deeper soil temperature.
  • Cubic chaotic map and its chaotic walk cubic_chaotic_map: Bertin's cubic chaotic map and the chaotic walk it drives, which spreads like a random walk.
  • Double pendulum double_pendulum: A double pendulum, a pendulum hanging from the bob of another, written as its two Lagrange equations.
  • Duffing duffing: The forced Duffing oscillator x'' = -delta x' - alpha x - beta x^3 + gamma cos(omega t), chaotic here.
  • Dynamical billiards of Sinai, mushroom, and open three-disk shapes billiards: A particle moving freely on a billiard table and reflecting specularly off its walls.
  • Elementary automata elementary_automaton: An elementary cellular automaton by its Wolfram number, started from a single live cell by default.
  • Forced Toda oscillator forced_toda: The forced Toda oscillator x'' + d x' + e^x - 1 = a sin(omega t), a passive asymmetric oscillator.
  • Fractional Lorenz fractional_lorenz: The fractional Lorenz flow of Grigorenko and Grigorenko, chaotic for orders close enough to 1.
  • Generalized tent map skew_tent_map: An ensemble of the skew tent map, whose density relaxes to the uniform invariant density for any a.
  • Gissinger geodynamo geodynamo: Gissinger's geodynamo, whose dipole field reverses at irregular times.
  • Hyperchaotic four-dimensional Rössler flow hyperchaotic_rossler: Rössler's four-dimensional flow, hyperchaotic with two positive Lyapunov exponents for its defaults.
  • Hénon map henon_map: The Hénon map x' = 1 - a x² + y, y' = b x, with a fractal strange attractor for its defaults.
  • Hénon-Heiles henon_heiles: The Hénon-Heiles system of a star in a galactic potential, whose motion is chaotic at higher energies.
  • Intermittency maps intermittency_map: The Pomeau-Manneville map x' = x + x^z (mod 1), whose long laminar phases near 0 end in chaotic bursts.
  • Kuramoto-Sivashinsky kuramoto_sivashinsky: The Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation u_t = -u u_x - u_xx - u_xxxx, spatiotemporally chaotic.
  • Langford attractor langford: The Langford flow, a rotation whose torus breaks into a strange attractor for the defaults of Dilão.
  • Logistic map logistic_map: The logistic map x_{t+1} = r x_t (1 - x_t), which reaches chaos through period doubling as r grows.
  • Lorenz lorenz: The Lorenz-63 system of convection, chaotic on a butterfly-shaped attractor for its standard parameters.
  • Lorenz-84 lorenz_84: Lorenz-84, the general circulation reduced to a westerly jet and a travelling wave, chaotic for F = 8.
  • Lorenz-96 lorenz_96: Lorenz-96, dx_i/dt = (x_{i+1} - x_{i-2}) x_{i-1} - x_i + F on a ring of sites around a latitude circle.
  • Lozi map lozi_map: The Lozi map x' = 1 + y - a |x|, y' = b x, the piecewise linear Hénon map with a strange attractor.
  • Mackey-Glass mackey_glass: The Mackey-Glass equation x' = beta x(t - tau) / (1 + x(t - tau)^n) - gamma x of blood cell production.
  • Memristor oscillator memristor_oscillator: The simplest memristor oscillator: a capacitor, an inductor, and a memristor in series.
  • N-body and solar system n_body: Bodies in the plane that attract each other pairwise by Newtonian gravity.
  • Nosé-Hoover oscillator nose_hoover: The Nosé-Hoover oscillator x' = y, y' = y z - x, z' = 1 - y², with tori next to a chaotic sea.
  • Nuclear quadrupole vibrations nuclear_quadrupole: The quadrupole vibrations of a nuclear surface, a Hamiltonian system of two degrees of freedom.
  • Restricted three-body problem restricted_three_body: A light body moving in the plane of two primaries on circular orbits, in the frame that rotates with them.
  • Ricker map of overcompensating generations ricker: Ricker's map of a population in discrete generations, n' = r n exp(-n), chaotic for large r.
  • Rössler rossler: The Rössler system, a chaotic flow with one folded band for its standard parameters.
  • Rössler with an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter ou_driven_rossler: The Rössler flow driven through its bifurcations by a slow Ornstein-Uhlenbeck control parameter.
  • Rössler-driven Lorenz and generalized synchronization rossler_driven_lorenz: A chaotic Rössler system that drives a Lorenz-63 system through its second variable.
  • Sitnikov problem sitnikov: A light body moving on the axis through the centre of mass of two equal primaries, normal to their orbit.
  • Sprott flow with a conservative torus and a chaotic attractor sprott_mixed_flow: Sprott's flow with a conservative torus and a dissipative chaotic attractor side by side.
  • Sprott jerk sprott_jerk: Sprott's jerk equation x''' = -A x'' - x' + |x| - 1, chaotic near A = 0.6.
  • Standard standard_map: The Chirikov standard map p' = p + K sin θ, θ' = θ + p', with global chaos above K ≈ 0.9716.
  • Störmer charge in a dipole field stormer_problem: A charged particle moving in the magnetic dipole field of a planet, the Störmer problem.
  • Tent tent_map: The tent map x' = μ min(x, 1 - x), chaotic with Lyapunov exponent ln μ for μ above 1.
  • Thomas cyclically symmetric attractor thomas: The Thomas flow x' = -a x + sin y with its cyclic permutations, chaotic for a = 0.18.
  • Towel maps towel_map: Rössler's towel map, a three-dimensional map with two positive Lyapunov exponents.

chaos game

chartists

checkpoint inhibitor

chemical Langevin equation

chemotaxis

chemotherapy

chimera

  • Kuramoto-Sakaguchi chimera kuramoto_sakaguchi_chimera: Two populations of identical phase oscillators with phase lag, where one synchronizes and one drifts.
  • Nonlocal ring chimera nonlocal_ring_chimera: Identical phase oscillators on a ring, each coupled to its R nearest neighbours on both sides.

chiral phase

  • Nonreciprocal Vicsek system nonreciprocal_vicsek: Two species of Vicsek movers in a periodic box whose alignment with each other is nonreciprocal.

chirality

circadian rhythm

  • Drosophila circadian clock circadian_clock: Goldbeter's system of the Drosophila circadian clock, PER that represses its own transcription.

circuit

  • Chua double and multiple scrolls chua: Chua's circuit, whose double-scroll or multiscroll attractor is chaotic.
  • Circuits under periodic impulses impulsive_circuits: An RLC circuit driven by a periodic train of current impulses, L C x'' + R C x' + x = A Σ δ(t - k T).
  • Coupled Colpitts oscillators coupled_colpitts: Two detuned chaotic Colpitts oscillators coupled through the difference of their second variables.
  • DC motor with an inertia dc_motor: A DC motor whose armature circuit of components drives an inertia on a Lagrangian coordinate.
  • Memristive mixed-mode oscillator memristive_mixed_mode_oscillator: A slow-fast circuit with a cubic flux-controlled memristor, whose oscillations mix two amplitudes.
  • Memristor oscillator memristor_oscillator: The simplest memristor oscillator: a capacitor, an inductor, and a memristor in series.
  • Modified Chua with mixed-mode oscillations mixed_mode_chua: A modified Chua circuit on three time scales, whose oscillations mix small and large amplitudes.
  • RLC circuit rlc_circuit: A series RLC circuit written as Kirchhoff's voltage law, L q'' + R q' + q / C = V cos(ω t).
  • Tunnel-diode oscillator tunnel_diode_oscillator: A tunnel-diode oscillator: an inductor and a capacitor in parallel with a negative-resistance diode.

circular motion

circulation

  • Lumped cardiovascular system cardiovascular: A closed lumped system of the systemic circulation driven by a left ventricle of varying elastance.

clearing

clubs

  • Join-a-club spins join_a_club: Join-a-club spins, agents who join a club with their acquaintances while acquaintances follow the club.

clustering

clusters

  • Continuum percolation continuum_percolation: Overlapping disks at uniform positions in a square, whose clusters percolate near a filling of 1.13.
  • Deffuant bounded confidence deffuant: The Deffuant bounded confidence system, whose opinions settle into about 1 / (2 * confidence) clusters.
  • Hegselmann-Krause hegselmann_krause: The Hegselmann-Krause system, whose opinions freeze within a few steps into clusters about 2 ε apart.
  • Living crystals living_crystals: Active colloids of radius 1 with phoretic attraction, which gather into clusters that slowly coarsen.
  • Social impact theory social_impact: The social impact system on a full grid, with random persuasiveness and supportiveness.

co-simulation

coagulation

coalitions

coarsening

codimension two

  • Takens-Bogdanov takens_bogdanov_form: The Takens-Bogdanov normal form x' = y, y' = β1 + β2 x + x² + s x y, where a saddle-node meets a Hopf.

coevolution

  • NKCS coevolution on coupled NK landscapes nkcs: The NKCS model of Kauffman and Johnsen, species climbing NK landscapes coupled to each other's genes.
  • Solé-Manrubia extinctions sole_manrubia: The ecosystem of Solé and Manrubia, whose species go extinct when their dependencies turn against them.
  • Tangled Nature tangled_nature: The Tangled Nature system, where organisms whose types interact through random couplings coevolve.

cognition

  • Cognitive consistency agents cognitive_consistency: Agents whose attitudes spread by conversation and settle in a belief network that seeks consistency.

cognitive systems

cohesion

collapse

  • Keller-Segel chemotaxis keller_segel: The Keller-Segel system of cells that diffuse and climb the gradient of a chemical they secrete.

collective decision

collisions

  • Boltzmann boltzmann_equation: The Boltzmann equation of Maxwell molecules over one position and two velocity axes.
  • Enskog equations enskog: The local Enskog equation, the Boltzmann equation with the contact value of the pair correlation of disks.
  • Microscopic flocking with aligning binary collisions binary_collision_flocking: Self-propelled particles that flock through aligning binary collisions, the Bertin-Droz-Grégoire system.

collocation

colloidal molecule

colored noise

combination therapy

combinatorial evolution

commodity cycle

commons

  • Carrying capacity of a meadow meadow_capacity: Cows that graze a summer of 25 weeks on a meadow, which shows how many cows the meadow can carry.
  • Tragedy of the meadow commons tragedy_of_the_commons: Herders whose cows graze a shared meadow, each adding cows while a cow pays, until the grass collapses.

communities

community flux balance

commuting

compartments

competition

competitive exclusion

complex

  • Julia sets julia: The filled Julia set of z -> z^2 + c, the starting points whose orbit stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5).
  • Mandelbrot set mandelbrot: The Mandelbrot set, the points c whose orbit of z -> z^2 + c from 0 stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5).
  • Random complex square-root function system inverse_julia: The random function system z -> ±√(z - omega), whose points settle on the Julia set of z² + omega.

computation

concurrency

condensation

  • Zero-range process zero_range_process: The zero-range process on a ring, which condenses above the critical density 1 / (b - 2) for b > 2.

conductance

  • Hodgkin-Huxley hodgkin_huxley: The Hodgkin-Huxley neuron, whose sodium and potassium channels produce action potentials.

configuration model

connectance

consensus

  • Galam majority galam_majority: The Galam majority system, where random groups adopt their majority until one opinion wins.
  • Majority rule with willingness and zealots willing_majority: The majority rule with willingness, where zealots of willingness 0 never change their opinion.
  • Naming game naming_game: The minimal naming game, where agents with empty inventories agree on one word.
  • Nonlinear three-body consensus on temporal hypergraphs hypergraph_consensus: The nonlinear three-body consensus system on a random hypergraph of triangles that switch on and off.
  • Sznajd sznajd: The Sznajd system, where agreeing pairs of agents convince their neighbours.

conservation

  • Diffusion automaton diffusion_automaton: A cellular automaton of diffusion, c' = c + r Σ (c_neighbour - c), started from a square of ones.
  • FHP lattice gas fhp_lattice_gas: The FHP-I lattice gas on a periodic triangular lattice, with a dense disc that spreads into the gas.
  • Fixed-energy sandpile fixed_energy_sandpile: The fixed-energy sandpile, a Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld pile with no drive and no loss on a periodic lattice.
  • HPP lattice gas hpp_lattice_gas: The HPP lattice gas on a periodic square lattice, whose particles move along four directions and collide.

conservation law

  • Burgers burgers: The inviscid Burgers equation on a periodic interval of length 2 pi, whose sine steepens into a shock.
  • GKT non-local traffic gkt_traffic: The gas-kinetic-based traffic system, where drivers brake on the traffic at an interaction point ahead.
  • Kerner-Konhäuser system kerner_konhauser: The Kerner-Konhäuser system, where viscous traffic flow forms dense moving clusters.
  • Lighthill-Whitham-Richards lighthill_whitham_richards: The Lighthill-Whitham-Richards system, the conservation of cars with the Greenshields speed law.
  • Payne system payne: The Payne system, where the speed of traffic relaxes to the Greenshields speed and anticipates density.
  • Shallow-water dam break shallow_water: The shallow-water dam break: still water at two depths that a removed dam separated at the middle.
  • Wave-number conservation and wave breaking wave_breaking: The kinematic wave equation of deep-water wave trains on a periodic interval of length 2 pi.

conservative

conserved

conserved noise

consumer choice

consumer-resource

contact network

contagion

containers

context-free

  • Context-free subshift context_free_subshift: A Markov chain on the context-free subshift, ternary rings where every block 0 1^h 2^k 0 has h = k.

continuous automaton

continuous energy

  • Zhang sandpile zhang_sandpile: The Zhang sandpile, a continuous sandpile whose unstable sites give away all their energy.

continuous space

contract curve

contractile

contrarians

  • Voter variants voter_variants: Voter system variants on a network, with threshold voters and a share of contrarians.

control

convection

convolution

  • Amari neural field amari_neural_field: The Amari neural field, whose lateral inhibition holds a stationary bump of activity.
  • Lenia and its expanded universe lenia: Lenia, a continuous automaton whose ring-kernel convolutions grow gliding, lifelike solitons.

cooperation

cooperative game theory

copying

  • Vertex-copying network growth vertex_copying: Vertex-copying growth, whose new nodes copy the edges of existing nodes and make a heavy-tailed degree.

correlated noise

cosmology

costs

counting process

  • Bernoulli process bernoulli_process: Independent Bernoulli processes, one success or failure per step, whose success counts are binomial.
  • Poisson process poisson_process: Independent Poisson processes, counters that grow by one at exponentially distributed waiting times.

coupled maps

coupling tensor

covid

credit

  • Firm and bank credit networks credit_networks: A credit market where firms sample banks and switch to cheaper lenders, and defaults hit the lenders.

crime

  • Brothel movement system trafficking: The brothel movement system, where victims moved between brothels leave traces in bills and train trips.

criminality

  • Criminality and security criminality: The kinetic system of criminality in a society and the security forces that act against it.

crises

critical load

critical slowing down

criticality

cross-feeding

crowds

culture

current

cyclic dominance

  • Rock-paper-scissors rock_paper_scissors: Rock, paper, and scissors on a lattice, whose cyclic invasions keep the three strategies coexisting.

cyclic symmetry

cytokines

dark energy

  • FLRW cosmology from the Einstein equations flrw_cosmology: A homogeneous universe whose expansion follows from the Einstein equations of the Robertson-Walker metric.
  • Friedmann expansion friedmann_expansion: The scale factor of a homogeneous universe of matter and dark energy, after Friedmann and Lemaître.

data assimilation

  • Lorenz-96 lorenz_96: Lorenz-96, dx_i/dt = (x_{i+1} - x_{i-2}) x_{i-1} - x_i + F on a ring of sites around a latitude circle.

dde

decoupling

default cascade

deformable particles

degree distribution

degree sequence

delay

deletion

demand

dendritic cells

detailed balance

  • Discrete master equation discrete_master_equation: The discrete-time master equation of states on a ring, which relaxes to the Boltzmann distribution.

deterministic

  • Employment takeover employment_takeover: The employment takeover system on a periodic checkerboard, with half of each kind coloured at random.
  • HPP lattice gas hpp_lattice_gas: The HPP lattice gas on a periodic square lattice, whose particles move along four directions and collide.

diauxie

differential adhesion

diffusion

digital market

  • Shops and digital markets shops: Shops on a grid that compete for the shoppers on every cell, in person or in a digital market.

dimension reduction

  • Ott-Antonsen reduction ott_antonsen: The Ott-Antonsen equation for the order parameter of infinitely many Kuramoto oscillators.

directed percolation

discrete choice

discrete map

  • Adaptrode synapse adaptrode: An Adaptrode synapse driven by a train of input pulses that stops after a while.
  • Asymmetric diluted Hopfield network diluted_hopfield: The asymmetric diluted Hopfield network, which recalls a stored pattern below its memory capacity.
  • Baker baker_map: The generalized baker map, which stretches the unit square along x and stacks the two pieces in y.
  • Beam-beam map beam_beam_map: The beam-beam map of a particle of an accelerator beam that meets the opposite beam once every turn.
  • Bernoulli doubling map doubling_map: An ensemble of the doubling map x' = 2x (mod 1), iterated exactly on fractions with an odd denominator.
  • Boolean repressilator boolean_repressilator: The Boolean repressilator, where LacI represses TetR, TetR represses cI, and cI represses LacI.
  • Boolean system of the mammalian cell cycle mammalian_cell_cycle: The Boolean system of the mammalian cell cycle of Faure et al., ten proteins updated synchronously.
  • Brock-Mirman stochastic growth brock_mirman_growth: The Brock-Mirman economy, the optimal growth of a representative agent whose productivity is Markov.
  • Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian map cdn_map: The Cascais-Dilão-Noronha Gaussian map x' = exp(-alpha² x²) + β of an interval.
  • Cat map cat_map: Arnold's cat map (x, y) → (2x + y, x + y) (mod 1), an area-preserving hyperbolic map of the torus.
  • Circle circle_map: The sine circle map θ' = θ + Ω - K / (2π) sin 2πθ (mod 1), which locks into Arnold tongues.
  • Cobweb cobweb: A market whose price converges to or oscillates around equilibrium as supply lags the price.
  • Combinatorial creative phase transition creative_phase_transition: The diversity of a combinatorial system, which jumps from sparse to full above a critical rule density.
  • Conservative Hénon map conservative_henon_map: Hénon's area-preserving quadratic map, a rotation by 2π nu with a quadratic kick.
  • Coupled soil and deep temperature maps soil_temperature: The coupled maps of the soil surface temperature and the deeper soil temperature.
  • Crop livestock household crop_livestock_household: Bala's crop livestock model, a farming household that adds livestock rearing to its crop income.
  • Cubic chaotic map and its chaotic walk cubic_chaotic_map: Bertin's cubic chaotic map and the chaotic walk it drives, which spreads like a random walk.
  • Discrete-time SIRS with a recovery delay delayed_sirs: Two cities with recurrent outbreaks of a disease of fixed infection and immunity periods.
  • Echo state network echo_state_network: An echo state network, a reservoir of leaky tanh units with random recurrent weights driven by a sine.
  • Ehrenfest urn system of two boxes ehrenfest_urn: The Ehrenfest urn system, balls moved one at a time between two boxes, which relaxes to equal counts.
  • Eigen quasispecies eigen_quasispecies: The shares of a population at every number of mutations from the master sequence, the linear chain system.
  • Elman recurrent network trained by backpropagation elman_network: Elman's simple recurrent network, which learns to predict the next bit of a temporal XOR stream.
  • Evolutionary Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game evolutionary_sk_game: The evolutionary Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game, which self-organises to the edge of ergodicity breaking.
  • Exchange rates in international trade exchange_rates: Hamill and Gilbert's staged adjustment of trade and the exchange rate to a rise in home prices.
  • Fermi-Ulam map fermi_ulam_map: The Fermi-Ulam map of a ball bouncing between a fixed wall and a wall that oscillates in time.
  • Fibonacci rabbits fibonacci_rabbits: Fibonacci's rabbits, N_{t+1} = N_t + N_{t-1}, where every pair older than one month breeds a new pair.
  • Generalized tent map skew_tent_map: An ensemble of the skew tent map, whose density relaxes to the uniform invariant density for any a.
  • Heterogeneous household demand by utility and by elasticities household_demand: Hamill and Gilbert's heterogeneous households, whose demand for food traces a curve as its price rises.
  • Hidden Markov source hidden_markov_source: A hidden Markov source, whose symbols are emitted at random from the states of a hidden Markov chain.
  • Hénon map henon_map: The Hénon map x' = 1 - a x² + y, y' = b x, with a fractal strange attractor for its defaults.
  • Intermittency maps intermittency_map: The Pomeau-Manneville map x' = x + x^z (mod 1), whose long laminar phases near 0 end in chaotic bursts.
  • Intrinsic-instability populations intrinsic_instability: Jensen's coupled populations, whose steady state becomes unstable without a change of the surroundings.
  • Iterated function systems by the chaos game chaos_game: Points that draw the attractor of an iterated function system by the chaos game.
  • Kauffman random Boolean networks random_boolean_network: A Kauffman random Boolean network, nodes updated together by random functions of k random inputs.
  • Kirman exchange rate with switching traders kirman_exchange_rate: Kirman's foreign exchange market, whose traders switch between fundamentalism and chartism like ants.
  • Logistic map logistic_map: The logistic map x_{t+1} = r x_t (1 - x_t), which reaches chaos through period doubling as r grows.
  • Lozi map lozi_map: The Lozi map x' = 1 + y - a |x|, y' = b x, the piecewise linear Hénon map with a strange attractor.
  • Markov source markov_source: A Markov source, a sequence of symbols in which each symbol depends on the one before it.
  • Multiplier-accelerator multiplier_accelerator: Samuelson's multiplier-accelerator, Y_{t+1} = c (1 + v) Y_t - c v Y_{t-1} + G.
  • Newton-Raphson map newton_raphson_map: Newton's method for z³ = 1 in the complex plane, z' = (2z³ + 1) / (3z²), in real coordinates.
  • Next-generation reservoir computer next_generation_reservoir: A next-generation reservoir computer whose variables follow the ridge readout of their monomials.
  • Nicholson-Bailey nicholson_bailey: Hosts and parasitoids in discrete generations, whose equilibrium is unstable to growing oscillations.
  • PageRank iterations on networks pagerank: The PageRank iteration r_i' = (1 - d) / n + d Σ_j A_ij r_j / k_j on an undirected network.
  • Persistent random walk persistent_random_walk: Walkers on the integers that keep the direction of their last step with a probability.
  • Probabilistic Boolean network probabilistic_boolean_network: A probabilistic Boolean network, whose nodes draw one of their candidate functions at every step.
  • Random walk with autoregressive velocity random_walk_with_memory: Random walks whose velocity is an autoregressive process, x ← x + v and v ← alpha v + xi.
  • Ricker map of overcompensating generations ricker: Ricker's map of a population in discrete generations, n' = r n exp(-n), chaotic for large r.
  • SK game of reinforcement learners sk_game: The SK game, reinforcement learners whose rewards come from quenched Sherrington-Kirkpatrick couplings.
  • Standard standard_map: The Chirikov standard map p' = p + K sin θ, θ' = θ + p', with global chaos above K ≈ 0.9716.
  • Stock-flow consistent monetary economy stock_flow_consistent_economy: A stock-flow consistent economy, a closed circuit of money between households, firms, and a bank.
  • Tent tent_map: The tent map x' = μ min(x, 1 - x), chaotic with Lyapunov exponent ln μ for μ above 1.
  • Three-gene Boolean network three_gene_boolean_network: The three-gene Boolean network of Raman, updated synchronously.
  • Towel maps towel_map: Rössler's towel map, a three-dimensional map with two positive Lyapunov exponents.
  • Yeast cell-cycle network yeast_cell_cycle: The Boolean network of the budding yeast cell cycle of Li et al., eleven proteins and their regulation.

discrete time

discrete velocities

disorder

  • Binary perceptron and random K-SAT perceptron_satisfiability: A binary perceptron that must store random patterns, revealed one per step, as cardinality constraints.
  • Continuum percolation continuum_percolation: Overlapping disks at uniform positions in a square, whose clusters percolate near a filling of 1.13.
  • Diffusion in a speckle field diffusion_in_a_speckle_field: Brownian particles in a random speckle field, trapped at hotspots for longer as the field grows stronger.
  • Edwards-Anderson spin glass edwards_anderson: The Edwards-Anderson spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with quenched random bonds.
  • Fully biased walk among quenched broad traps biased_trap_walk: Walkers that hop always to the right through quenched traps with broadly distributed trapping times.
  • Mattis spin glass mattis_spin_glass: The Mattis spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with couplings J_ij = J xi_i xi_j of a pattern xi.
  • Random energy system random_energy_system: The random energy system, 2^N quenched Gaussian energies of variance N / 2 at a temperature.
  • SK game of reinforcement learners sk_game: The SK game, reinforcement learners whose rewards come from quenched Sherrington-Kirkpatrick couplings.
  • Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass sherrington_kirkpatrick: The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass with Glauber dynamics, frozen below the temperature T_c = J.

dispersal

distribution

divergence entropy

diversity

  • Sequentially linear ecosystem sequentially_linear_ecosystem: An ecosystem whose abundances follow linear dynamics between extinctions that rewrite its network.

dna computing

dose response

dosing

double auction

double well

  • Kramers escape kramers_escape: Particles that escape over the barrier of U = x^4 / 4 - x^2 / 2 by thermal noise of intensity D.

drive-response

driven

  • Pulsed electrochemical reactor pulsed_electrochemical_reactor: A stirred electrochemical reactor whose electrode is driven by a train of current pulses.

drug resistance

duplication

dynamic aperture

  • Conservative Hénon map conservative_henon_map: Hénon's area-preserving quadratic map, a rotation by 2π nu with a quadratic kick.

dynamic flux balance

dynamic range

early stage

early warning

early warning signals

earthquakes

echo chambers

echo state

  • Echo state network echo_state_network: An echo state network, a reservoir of leaky tanh units with random recurrent weights driven by a sine.

ecosystems

  • Tangled Nature tangled_nature: The Tangled Nature system, where organisms whose types interact through random couplings coevolve.

edge contraction

eigenfunctions

el farol

  • El Farol el_farol: Arthur's El Farol bar problem, whose attendance self-organizes around the capacity.
  • El Farol with strategic group formation el_farol_coalitions: Collins' El Farol bar with strategic group formation, whose coalitions share their best strategy.

electrochemistry

  • Pulsed electrochemical reactor pulsed_electrochemical_reactor: A stirred electrochemical reactor whose electrode is driven by a train of current pulses.

electromagnet

electromagnetism

electromechanics

  • Faraday-disk charger faraday_disk: A battery charger driven by a Faraday disk generator whose own current strengthens its field.
  • Regenerative braking regenerative_braking: A car braked by a Faraday disk generator on its wheel, which charges a supercapacitor.

elementary

  • Elementary automata elementary_automaton: An elementary cellular automaton by its Wolfram number, started from a single live cell by default.
  • Noisy automata noisy_automata: An elementary cellular automaton whose outputs are flipped at random with a small probability.

elementary flux modes

elementary metabolite units

elliptic umbilic

emergence

  • Ajani's Choice ajanis_choice: Chesney's Ajani's Choice, migrant farm workers and employers among whom underpayment emerges.
  • Game of Life game_of_life: Conway's Game of Life, or another life-like rule, on a torus.
  • Game of Life on a rewired small-world network small_world_life: Conway's Game of Life on a small-world network rewired from the Moore lattice of a torus.
  • Langton's ant langtons_ant: Langton's ant, which wanders chaotically for about 10,000 steps before it builds a periodic highway.

emotions

employment

  • Employment takeover employment_takeover: The employment takeover system on a periodic checkerboard, with half of each kind coloured at random.

endemic

  • SIRS sirs: An epidemic whose immunity wanes, which returns in damped waves to an endemic equilibrium.
  • SIS sis: An infection without immunity, where the recovered become susceptible again and the disease is endemic.

energy

  • Declining energy return on investment energy_return: The extraction of a finite energy reserve whose energy return on investment declines as it depletes.
  • Faraday-disk charger faraday_disk: A battery charger driven by a Faraday disk generator whose own current strengthens its field.
  • Pendulum swing-up pendulum_swing_up: A pendulum swung up to its inverted position by a bang-bang acceleration of its pivot.
  • Regenerative braking regenerative_braking: A car braked by a Faraday disk generator on its wheel, which charges a supercapacitor.
  • Wheel and rail contact wheel_rail_contact: A rail segment on a sleeper, loaded by the wheels of passing bogies.

energy balance

energy cascade

energy depot

  • Depot-pumped Brownian particles depot_brownian_particles: Brownian particles with energy depots, which start at rest and take up the speed sqrt(q/gamma - c/d).

energy harvesting

  • Vibration energy harvester vibration_energy_harvester: A dual-mass piezoelectric harvester in a car suspension, driven by the roughness of the road.

entropy

entropy rate

  • Markov source markov_source: A Markov source, a sequence of symbols in which each symbol depends on the one before it.

enzyme kinetics

epidemic threshold

epidemics

  • Contact process contact_process: The contact process on a periodic lattice, which survives above a critical infection rate near 1.65.

episims

equilibrium

equivariant

eroding goals

  • Drift to low performance drift_to_low_performance: Meadows' drift to low performance trap, eroding goals that follow a pessimistic view of the performance.

error threshold

  • Eigen quasispecies eigen_quasispecies: The shares of a population at every number of mutations from the master sequence, the linear chain system.

escape

  • Kramers escape kramers_escape: Particles that escape over the barrier of U = x^4 / 4 - x^2 / 2 by thermal noise of intensity D.

escape time

  • Julia sets julia: The filled Julia set of z -> z^2 + c, the starting points whose orbit stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5).
  • Mandelbrot set mandelbrot: The Mandelbrot set, the points c whose orbit of z -> z^2 + c from 0 stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5).

euler-lagrange

  • DC motor with an inertia dc_motor: A DC motor whose armature circuit of components drives an inertia on a Lagrangian coordinate.

evacuation

even shift

  • Even and S-gap subshifts gap_subshift: The shift on the S-gap subshift, the binary sequences whose runs of zeros between ones lie in S.

events

evolution

evolutionary algorithm

evolutionary game

  • Replicator dynamics and hawks and doves replicator_dynamics: The replicator dynamics of a game, by default hawks and doves, which settle at a share V / C of hawks.
  • Rock-paper-scissors rock_paper_scissors: Rock, paper, and scissors on a lattice, whose cyclic invasions keep the three strategies coexisting.

evolvability

exchange

exchange rate

exchange rates

excitability

  • FitzHugh-Nagumo ODE fitzhugh_nagumo_ode: The FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron, the two-variable reduction of Hodgkin and Huxley's excitable membrane.
  • Hodgkin-Huxley hodgkin_huxley: The Hodgkin-Huxley neuron, whose sodium and potassium channels produce action potentials.
  • Rothman excitable carbon cycle carbon_cycle: Rothman's excitable carbon cycle, where a large enough perturbation of the ocean sets off an excursion.

excitable

excitable media

excitation-inhibition

  • Wilson-Cowan wilson_cowan: The Wilson-Cowan system of interacting excitatory and inhibitory populations of neurons.

exclusion

  • Asymmetric exclusion process with open boundaries asep: The asymmetric simple exclusion process on an open line, in continuous time.
  • Competition competition: Two species that compete for the same resources, which coexist or exclude each other.
  • TASEP tasep: The totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with parallel update, on an open line or a ring.

exploration

explosive

explosive percolation

exponential growth

exposure

extinction

  • Fishery with measurement errors fishery_measurement_errors: Independent fisheries whose quota is set from a measurement of the stock with a Gaussian error.
  • Galton-Watson branching galton_watson: A Galton-Watson branching process with Poisson offspring, one generation per step.
  • Sequentially linear ecosystem sequentially_linear_ecosystem: An ecosystem whose abundances follow linear dynamics between extinctions that rewrite its network.
  • Solé-Manrubia extinctions sole_manrubia: The ecosystem of Solé and Manrubia, whose species go extinct when their dependencies turn against them.

extremal dynamics

  • Bak-Sneppen bak_sneppen: The Bak-Sneppen system, whose fitnesses self-organise above a critical value in avalanches of extinction.
  • Evolutionary Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game evolutionary_sk_game: The evolutionary Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game, which self-organises to the edge of ergodicity breaking.

extreme pathways

fair trade

  • Fair Food Program fair_food_program: Chesney's Fair Food Program, in which pressure on tomato buyers draws farms into fair wages.

feedback

feedback control

  • Fishery with measurement errors fishery_measurement_errors: Independent fisheries whose quota is set from a measurement of the stock with a Gaussian error.

fermi acceleration

  • Fermi-Ulam map fermi_ulam_map: The Fermi-Ulam map of a ball bouncing between a fixed wall and a wall that oscillates in time.

fever

fibrinolysis

field

final size

finite element

  • Heat on an L-shaped domain heat_l_shape: Heat on the L-shaped domain with fixed boundary temperatures, discretised by linear finite elements.

finite volume

  • Burgers burgers: The inviscid Burgers equation on a periodic interval of length 2 pi, whose sine steepens into a shock.
  • Discrete-velocity Boltzmann gas of Carleman discrete_velocity_boltzmann: The Carleman discrete-velocity Boltzmann equation on a periodic line, from a pulse of right movers.
  • GKT non-local traffic gkt_traffic: The gas-kinetic-based traffic system, where drivers brake on the traffic at an interaction point ahead.
  • Kerner-Konhäuser system kerner_konhauser: The Kerner-Konhäuser system, where viscous traffic flow forms dense moving clusters.
  • Lighthill-Whitham-Richards lighthill_whitham_richards: The Lighthill-Whitham-Richards system, the conservation of cars with the Greenshields speed law.
  • Payne system payne: The Payne system, where the speed of traffic relaxes to the Greenshields speed and anticipates density.
  • Shallow-water dam break shallow_water: The shallow-water dam break: still water at two depths that a removed dam separated at the middle.
  • Wave-number conservation and wave breaking wave_breaking: The kinematic wave equation of deep-water wave trains on a periodic interval of length 2 pi.

fire

  • Drossel-Schwabl forest fire forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire, where slow growth and rare lightning give fires of every size.
  • Forest fire on hexagonal lattices and graphs hexagonal_forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire on a triangular lattice of hexagonal cells, or on the nodes of a graph.
  • Site percolation site_percolation: Site percolation probed by a fire lit along the top row, which spans the lattice above p_c = 0.5927.

fire sales

firms

fiscal policy

fishery

  • Fishery with measurement errors fishery_measurement_errors: Independent fisheries whose quota is set from a measurement of the stock with a Gaussian error.
  • Hilsa fishery hilsa_fishery: A hilsa fishery, the life cycle of a migratory fish that the catch of juveniles and spawners depletes.

fitness landscape

fixation

fixed point

flocking

fluctuations

  • Two-phase zone exchange two_phase_zone_exchange: Independent zones of a two-phase apparatus, each exchanging particles with the rest of the apparatus.

flux balance

fold

food security

  • Food security systems food_security: A food security system, the rice self-sufficiency of a country under subsidy, research, and extension.
  • Rice land, population, and food security rice_food_balance: Bala's food security model, rice land that grows towards the land available against a growing population.

food web

  • Food webs food_webs: A food web where basal species grow logistically and consumers live on Lotka-Volterra predation.

forcing

forest

fractal

  • Baker baker_map: The generalized baker map, which stretches the unit square along x and stacks the two pieces in y.
  • Cantor cantor_set: The Cantor set as the substitution of every interval by its two outer parts.
  • Diffusion-limited aggregation diffusion_limited_aggregation: Diffusion-limited aggregation on a periodic grid, where random walkers stick to a seed at the center.
  • Iterated function systems by the chaos game chaos_game: Points that draw the attractor of an iterated function system by the chaos game.
  • Julia sets julia: The filled Julia set of z -> z^2 + c, the starting points whose orbit stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5).
  • Koch koch_curve: The Koch curve as the L-system F → F+F--F+F drawn by a turtle.
  • Mandelbrot set mandelbrot: The Mandelbrot set, the points c whose orbit of z -> z^2 + c from 0 stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5).
  • Newton-Raphson map newton_raphson_map: Newton's method for z³ = 1 in the complex plane, z' = (2z³ + 1) / (3z²), in real coordinates.
  • Random complex square-root function system inverse_julia: The random function system z -> ±√(z - omega), whose points settle on the Julia set of z² + omega.
  • Sierpiński substitutions sierpinski_substitution: The Sierpiński triangle or carpet as the substitution of a polygon by scaled copies of itself.

fractal basins

  • Magnetic pendulum magnetic_pendulum: A magnetic bob on a string swinging above magnets on a circle, which comes to rest at one of them.

fractal network

fractional

  • Fractional Lorenz fractional_lorenz: The fractional Lorenz flow of Grigorenko and Grigorenko, chaotic for orders close enough to 1.
  • Fractional Van der Pol fractional_van_der_pol: The fractional Van der Pol oscillator D^alpha x = y, D^alpha y = mu (1 - x^2) y - x.
  • Fractional damped oscillator fractional_oscillator: The fractional damped oscillator D^alpha x = v, D^alpha v = -omega^2 x - 2 gamma v.
  • Fractional relaxation fractional_relaxation: Fractional relaxation D^alpha x = -lambda x, which decays as the Mittag-Leffler function E_alpha.

fractional noise

  • Fractional Brownian motion fractional_brownian_motion: Fractional Brownian motion, dx = sqrt(2 D) dB_H, with <x^2> = 2 D t^(2 H) along every axis.

fragmentation

  • Coevolving voter coevolving_voter: The coevolving voter system, which fragments into consensual components when rewiring is fast.
  • Fragmentation fragmentation: The random fragmentation of an object of integer size, whose fragments keep breaking into smaller ones.

frame dragging

free group

frequency clusters

friction

friendship paradox

fronts

  • Fisher-KPP fisher_kpp: The Fisher-KPP equation, whose step invades the empty line as a front of speed 2 sqrt(r D).

frustration

fundamentalists

g protein

game

game theory

game transitions

games

gamma oscillations

gap junctions

gas

  • Ideal gas ideal_gas: An ideal gas of non-interacting molecules in a reflecting box.

gauge

gauge field

gel

  • Active nematic and polar gels active_gels: An active gel, a nematic tensor or a polarisation transported in the Stokes flow of its own stresses.

gene expression

gene knock-out

gene regulation

  • Drosophila circadian clock circadian_clock: Goldbeter's system of the Drosophila circadian clock, PER that represses its own transcription.
  • Genetic toggle switch toggle_switch: The genetic toggle switch of Gardner, Cantor, and Collins, two genes that repress each other.
  • Goodwin oscillator goodwin_oscillator: The Goodwin oscillator, a chain of stages whose last one represses the synthesis of the first.
  • Kauffman random Boolean networks random_boolean_network: A Kauffman random Boolean network, nodes updated together by random functions of k random inputs.
  • Negative autoregulation and bursty gene expression negative_autoregulation: A gene that represses its own transcription and makes its protein in bursts.
  • Probabilistic Boolean network probabilistic_boolean_network: A probabilistic Boolean network, whose nodes draw one of their candidate functions at every step.
  • Repressilator repressilator: The repressilator of Elowitz and Leibler, three genes in a ring that each repress the next.
  • Three-gene Boolean network three_gene_boolean_network: The three-gene Boolean network of Raman, updated synchronously.
  • Yeast cell-cycle network yeast_cell_cycle: The Boolean network of the budding yeast cell cycle of Li et al., eleven proteins and their regulation.

gene therapy

general circulation

  • Lorenz-84 lorenz_84: Lorenz-84, the general circulation reduced to a westerly jet and a travelling wave, chaotic for F = 8.

general relativity

generalized mass action

generalized synchronization

genetic algorithm

genetic drift

  • Kimura diffusion of allele frequencies kimura_diffusion: Replicate populations whose allele frequencies diffuse by drift until the allele is lost or fixed.
  • Moran process moran_process: The Moran process, a population of constant size where fitter traits fix by selection and drift.

genotype networks

geodesics

geomagnetism

  • Gissinger geodynamo geodynamo: Gissinger's geodynamo, whose dipole field reverses at irregular times.

giant component

giant number fluctuations

  • Dry active nematics dry_active_nematics: A dry active nematic, a conserved density coupled to a symmetric traceless alignment tensor.

gillespie

glass

  • Bouchaud trap system trap_system: The Bouchaud trap system, walkers that escape from traps of exponentially distributed depths.

glass transition

  • Random energy system random_energy_system: The random energy system, 2^N quenched Gaussian energies of variance N / 2 at a temperature.

glioma

glucagon

glycolysis

golden mean

  • Subshifts subshifts: A Markov chain on the golden mean shift, the configurations of a ring that never hold two adjacent ones.

governance

  • PID governance loop pid_loop: A work process whose output a PID controller keeps at a set point against a disturbance.

granular matter

graph laplacian

  • Diffusion network_diffusion: Diffusion on a network, du_i/dt = D Σ_j A_ij (u_j - u_i), which spreads a unit mass to every node.

graphlet

  • Graphlet arrival growth graphlet_arrival: Growth by the arrival of three-node graphlets, a tree whose degree exponent rises with alpha.

gravity

gravity system

grazing

  • Carrying capacity of a meadow meadow_capacity: Cows that graze a summer of 25 weeks on a meadow, which shows how many cows the meadow can carry.

grid

  • Agent-based Lotka-Volterra agent_based_lotka_volterra: Prey and predators that walk on a grid, whose numbers cycle like the Lotka-Volterra equations.
  • Agent-based SIR with mortality, waning immunity, incubation, and lockdown agent_based_sir: People who walk on a grid and infect those in their cell, with optional extensions of the SIR system.
  • Axelrod culture dissemination axelrod: Axelrod's culture dissemination system on a full grid with von Neumann neighbourhoods.
  • Belief diffusion with influentials influentials: The belief diffusion system with influentials who care passionately and weigh more with their neighbours.
  • Bilateral barter of two or three goods goods_traders: Traders who wander a grid and barter two or three goods with their neighbours.
  • Bonabeau hierarchies bonabeau_hierarchies: The Bonabeau system, where a hierarchy of strengths emerges above a critical density of agents.
  • Brothel movement system trafficking: The brothel movement system, where victims moved between brothels leave traces in bills and train trips.
  • Carrying capacity of a meadow meadow_capacity: Cows that graze a summer of 25 weeks on a meadow, which shows how many cows the meadow can carry.
  • Fair-trade food choice with peer influence fair_food: The choice between fair-trade and regular food of consumers who influence their neighbours.
  • Insider sabotage insider_sabotage: The insider sabotage system of employees whose risk of sabotage builds up over the days of a year.
  • Random-walker epidemics on a grid and on a small world random_walker_epidemics: Random walkers among whom one sick walker starts a deadly epidemic, on a grid or on a network.
  • Ridesharing ridesharing: Riders who request trips on a city grid and cabs that a stable matching sends to them.
  • Schelling schelling: A Schelling segregation system on a grid with at most one resident per cell.
  • Shops and digital markets shops: Shops on a grid that compete for the shoppers on every cell, in person or in a digital market.
  • Social impact theory social_impact: The social impact system on a full grid, with random persuasiveness and supportiveness.
  • Stochastic Schelling stochastic_schelling: The stochastic Schelling system of agents moving between blocks, which segregates above beta = 2.
  • Sugarscape sugarscape: The Sugarscape of Epstein and Axtell, foragers of random vision and metabolism on two sugar peaks.
  • Tragedy of the meadow commons tragedy_of_the_commons: Herders whose cows graze a shared meadow, each adding cows while a cow pays, until the grass collapses.
  • Wolf and sheep wolf_sheep: The wolf and sheep predation system with one grass patch per cell.

group

  • Automata on the Grigorchuk group grigorchuk_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Grigorchuk group, a group of intermediate growth.
  • Automata on the free group free_group_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the free group, a tree in which every cell follows its neighbours.
  • Baumslag-Solitar groups baumslag_solitar_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Baumslag-Solitar group BS(m, n), of exponential growth.
  • Heisenberg heisenberg_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the discrete Heisenberg group, of polynomial growth of degree 4.
  • Lamplighter lamplighter_automaton: The parity automaton on a ball of the lamplighter group, a linear rule over the field of two elements.
  • Life in a tree life_in_a_tree: The Game of Life on the free group F4, a tree of degree 8, surjective but not pre-injective.
  • Linear automata over rings linear_ring_automaton: The discrete Laplacian as a linear automaton on a ring, over the field of modulus elements.
  • Muller's pre-injective non-surjective automaton on F2 muller_automaton: Muller's automaton on the free group F2, pre-injective but not surjective.
  • Self-indexed shift over a group alphabet self_indexed_shift: The map τ(x)(g) = x(g · x(g)) over the group as alphabet, continuous and equivariant but no automaton.
  • Subshifts subshifts: A Markov chain on the golden mean shift, the configurations of a ring that never hold two adjacent ones.
  • Surjective non-pre-injective linear automaton on F2 surjective_linear_automaton: A linear automaton over K^2 on the free group F2, surjective but not pre-injective.

group alphabet

group formation

growth

  • Barabási-Albert growth, with Bianconi-Barabási fitness barabasi_albert: Barabási-Albert growth, whose degrees follow a power law P(k) ~ k^-3 by preferential attachment.
  • Capital stock capital_stock: Meadows' capital stock, grown by reinvested output and drained by depreciation.
  • Graphlet arrival growth graphlet_arrival: Growth by the arrival of three-node graphlets, a tree whose degree exponent rises with alpha.
  • Growing simplicial complex by triangle attachment growing_simplicial_complex: A simplicial complex that grows by gluing one triangle per step along an edge drawn uniformly.
  • Holme-Kim growth holme_kim: Holme-Kim growth, scale-free like Barabási-Albert growth but with clustering that stays high.
  • Pontryagin capital and consumption optimal_consumption: The Ramsey economy that chooses the consumption path maximising its discounted utility.
  • Popularity-similarity network popularity_similarity_network: Popularity-similarity growth, scale-free and clustered, whose nodes attach by hyperbolic distance.
  • Simon-Yule growth simon_yule: The Simon system of a text that grows from one word, whose word counts follow a power law.
  • Solow solow: An economy whose capital per worker approaches its steady state through saving and depreciation.
  • Urban scaling of interactions urban_scaling_interactions: A city that grows by residents and internal links, so its meetings grow faster than its population.
  • Vertex-copying network growth vertex_copying: Vertex-copying growth, whose new nodes copy the edges of existing nodes and make a heavy-tailed degree.

gurus

gyre

gyroscope

  • Gyroscope in a gimbal gimballed_gyroscope: A gyroscope in a gimbal: a rotor in an inner ring that turns in an outer ring about a fixed axis.

haematopoiesis

hamiltonian

  • Beam-beam map beam_beam_map: The beam-beam map of a particle of an accelerator beam that meets the opposite beam once every turn.
  • Cat map cat_map: Arnold's cat map (x, y) → (2x + y, x + y) (mod 1), an area-preserving hyperbolic map of the torus.
  • Conservative Hénon map conservative_henon_map: Hénon's area-preserving quadratic map, a rotation by 2π nu with a quadratic kick.
  • Hénon-Heiles henon_heiles: The Hénon-Heiles system of a star in a galactic potential, whose motion is chaotic at higher energies.
  • Nuclear quadrupole vibrations nuclear_quadrupole: The quadrupole vibrations of a nuclear surface, a Hamiltonian system of two degrees of freedom.
  • Particle in the well k x^2 e^-x particle_in_a_well: A particle moving without friction in the potential U(x) = k x² e^-x.
  • Restricted three-body problem restricted_three_body: A light body moving in the plane of two primaries on circular orbits, in the frame that rotates with them.
  • Standard standard_map: The Chirikov standard map p' = p + K sin θ, θ' = θ + p', with global chaos above K ≈ 0.9716.
  • Störmer charge in a dipole field stormer_problem: A charged particle moving in the magnetic dipole field of a planet, the Störmer problem.
  • Two-body orbit two_body_orbit: A light planet orbiting a heavy star under Newtonian gravity, as the Kepler problem of their separation.

hamiltonian path

handling time

  • Mutualism mutualism: Two species that grow logistically and feed each other, above their carrying capacities.

harvesting

  • Fishery with measurement errors fishery_measurement_errors: Independent fisheries whose quota is set from a measurement of the stock with a Gaussian error.
  • Lotka-Volterra with harvesting lotka_volterra_with_harvesting: Lotka-Volterra predation where both species are harvested with a constant effort.
  • Optimal harvesting optimal_harvesting: A logistic resource harvested with the effort that maximises its discounted profit.

health

  • Obesity system obesity: The obesity system of adults who eat near home and work, one step per day.

heaps law

heat

  • Cooling coffee cooling_coffee: A cup of coffee whose temperature relaxes to that of the room, T' = -k (T - T_room).

heat bath

  • Early-stage protein folding intermediate early_stage_folding_intermediate: The residues of a protein sampling the cells of an ellipse path of the Ramachandran map by heat bath.
  • Join-a-club spins join_a_club: Join-a-club spins, agents who join a club with their acquaintances while acquaintances follow the club.

heavy tails

herding

heterogeneity

heuristics

hexagons

hidden markov system

  • Hidden Markov source hidden_markov_source: A hidden Markov source, whose symbols are emitted at random from the states of a hidden Markov chain.

hierarchy

  • Bonabeau hierarchies bonabeau_hierarchies: The Bonabeau system, where a hierarchy of strengths emerges above a critical density of agents.
  • Container model of human mobility container_mobility: The container model of human mobility of Alessandretti, Aslak, and Lehmann, trajectories across scales.
  • Hora and Tempus watchmakers watchmakers: Simon's fable of the watchmakers Hora and Tempus, told by Meadows, with and without stable subassemblies.

higher-order interactions

hill climbing

  • NK fitness landscapes nk_landscape: Agents that climb Kauffman's NK fitness landscape from random genomes until they reach local peaks.

history dependence

  • Ageing random walk ageing_random_walk: Ageing random walks, whose up steps become rarer the more of them a walker has taken.
  • Pólya urn polya_urn: Independent Pólya urns, whose share of red balls converges to a random limit with a beta distribution.

hiv

homeostasis

hopf bifurcation

  • Ikeda delay equation ikeda: The Ikeda delay equation x' = a sin x(t - tau) in the form of Dilão (2023, Exercise 6.4).
  • Leading-following tipping cascade leading_following_cascade: A cascade of two tipping elements, a leading fold driven by a ramp and a follower forced by the leader.
  • Stuart-Landau stuart_landau: The Stuart-Landau oscillator z' = (μ + i ω) z - (1 + i β) |z|² z, the normal form of a Hopf bifurcation.

hormone

hormone therapy

hormones

host-parasitoid

  • Nicholson-Bailey nicholson_bailey: Hosts and parasitoids in discrete generations, whose equilibrium is unstable to growing oscillations.

household

  • Crop livestock household crop_livestock_household: Bala's crop livestock model, a farming household that adds livestock rearing to its crop income.

human mobility

humanitarian logistics

  • Food relief system food_relief: A food relief system, a pipeline that ships food to a warehouse and distributes it to people in need.

hunter-gatherers

hybrid

  • Ballistic pendulum ballistic_pendulum: A bullet that sticks in the block of a pendulum at rest, which then swings up.
  • Circuits under periodic impulses impulsive_circuits: An RLC circuit driven by a periodic train of current impulses, L C x'' + R C x' + x = A Σ δ(t - k T).
  • Lumped cardiovascular system cardiovascular: A closed lumped system of the systemic circulation driven by a left ventricle of varying elastance.

hydrodynamics

  • Brownian particle near a wall brownian_near_wall: A Brownian particle whose diffusion slows near a wall, D(z) = D0 z² / (z² + a²), as it settles on it.
  • Hydrodynamically coupled particles in blinking traps hydrodynamically_coupled_traps: Two Brownian spheres in blinking optical traps, whose free motion is correlated through the fluid.
  • Squirmers squirmers: Spherical squirmers that swim at 2 B1 / 3 and stir each other as pushers or pullers.
  • Toner-Tu hydrodynamics toner_tu: The Toner-Tu hydrodynamics of a polar flock on a periodic lattice, from a disordered velocity field.

hydrophobicity

hyperbolic

hyperbolic growth

  • Finite-time blow-up finite_time_blow_up: Hyperbolic growth x' = a x^p, which diverges at the finite time x0^(1 - p) / (a (p - 1)) for p > 1.

hyperchaos

  • Hyperchaotic four-dimensional Rössler flow hyperchaotic_rossler: Rössler's four-dimensional flow, hyperchaotic with two positive Lyapunov exponents for its defaults.
  • Towel maps towel_map: Rössler's towel map, a three-dimensional map with two positive Lyapunov exponents.

hypercycle

  • Hypercycles hypercycles: A network of self-replicating molecules whose catalysis keeps a set of them alive, a hypercycle.

hypergraph

hysteresis

  • Cusp normal forms cusp_form: The cusp normal form x' = β1 + β2 x - x³, bistable inside the cusp 27 β1² < 4 β2³.
  • Forest dieback forest_dieback: The forest dieback model of the Amazon, whose cover tips to bare soil when the ambient temperature rises.
  • Heated room with a thermostat heated_room: A room assembled from thermal and electrical components, heated under a thermostat with hysteresis.
  • Subcritical Hopf normal form subcritical_hopf_form: The subcritical Hopf normal form, where a stable focus coexists with a stable limit cycle.

ice ages

  • Saltzman-Maasch glaciation saltzman_glaciation: The glacial cycles of Saltzman and Maasch, a self-sustained oscillation of ice, carbon, and ocean.
  • Van der Pol ice ages van_der_pol_ice_ages: Glacial cycles as a Van der Pol relaxation oscillator, optionally paced by orbital forcing.

ice-albedo feedback

imitation

immune

  • Immune competition immune_competition: The kinetic system of the competition between tumour cells and immune cells.

immunity

immunosuppression

immunotherapy

impacts

  • Ballistic pendulum ballistic_pendulum: A bullet that sticks in the block of a pendulum at rest, which then swings up.
  • Bouncing ball bouncing_ball: A ball that falls under gravity and bounces off the floor, losing speed by a coefficient of restitution.
  • Newton's cradle newtons_cradle: Newton's cradle: pendulum balls in a row that pass momentum along by elastic collisions.

impulses

incoherent feedforward

income distribution

independent trials

  • Bernoulli process bernoulli_process: Independent Bernoulli processes, one success or failure per step, whose success counts are binomial.

individual growth

  • Penaeid shrimp growth penaeid_shrimp: The growth of one penaeid shrimp from the juvenile stage, forced by the food and the water temperature.

inductive reasoning

inequality

inertia

infection

infinite alphabet

influentials

information

  • Polyhomeostatic neuron polyhomeostatic_neuron: A neuron that adapts its gain and threshold so its firing rate approaches an exponential distribution.

information theory

  • Hidden Markov source hidden_markov_source: A hidden Markov source, whose symbols are emitted at random from the states of a hidden Markov chain.
  • Markov source markov_source: A Markov source, a sequence of symbols in which each symbol depends on the one before it.

innovation

insider threat

  • Insider sabotage insider_sabotage: The insider sabotage system of employees whose risk of sabotage builds up over the days of a year.

instability

institution

  • Fractional-reserve banking fractional_reserve_banking: Customers and banks whose lending of excess reserves multiplies the base money by 1 / ratio.

insulin

integers

  • Unbounded-alphabet automaton unbounded_alphabet_automaton: An additive automaton over the nonnegative integers, x'(n) = x(n - 1) + x(n), from a single 1.

integrable

  • Circular billiard circular_billiard: A particle moving freely inside a circle and reflecting specularly off its wall.

integral operator

integrate and fire

interaction matrix

interdependent networks

intermediate growth

intermittency

intermittent

international trade

interruptions

  • Hora and Tempus watchmakers watchmakers: Simon's fable of the watchmakers Hora and Tempus, told by Meadows, with and without stable subassemblies.

interval map

invariant density

  • Bernoulli doubling map doubling_map: An ensemble of the doubling map x' = 2x (mod 1), iterated exactly on fractions with an odd denominator.
  • Generalized tent map skew_tent_map: An ensemble of the skew tent map, whose density relaxes to the uniform invariant density for any a.

invariants

inventory

inversion

invertible

  • Involutive automaton involutive_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is its own inverse, with the minimal memory set {-1, 0, ..., n}.

involution

  • Involutive automaton involutive_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is its own inverse, with the minimal memory set {-1, 0, ..., n}.

irreversibility

isotope labelling

iterated

iterated function system

jams

  • Charbonneau traffic charbonneau_traffic: Charbonneau's traffic system, where random braking of single drivers sets off traffic jams.
  • Intelligent driver system intelligent_driver_system: The intelligent driver system of cars on a ring road.
  • Kerner-Konhäuser system kerner_konhauser: The Kerner-Konhäuser system, where viscous traffic flow forms dense moving clusters.
  • Moment equations of Langevin traffic with a jam instability traffic_density_equation: The density and flux equations of Langevin traffic on a ring road, whose uniform flow breaks into jams.
  • Nagel-Schreckenberg nagel_schreckenberg: The Nagel-Schreckenberg traffic system on a ring road, where jams emerge above a critical density.
  • Optimal velocity optimal_velocity: The optimal velocity system of cars on a ring road, where uniform flow breaks into stop-and-go waves.
  • Ring-road driver agents ring_road_drivers: Drivers on a circular highway, where small random errors of speed set off traffic jams.

julia set

jump

  • SIR sir: An epidemic that moves individuals from susceptible to infected to recovered.
  • SIRS sirs: An epidemic whose immunity wanes, which returns in damped waves to an endemic equilibrium.
  • SIS sis: An infection without immunity, where the recovered become susceptible again and the disease is endemic.
  • Zombie outbreak of susceptible, zombie, and removed compartments zombie_outbreak: The outbreak of zombies of Munz et al., where the dead rise again and humans are eventually overrun.

jump process

jumps

kam

  • Conservative Hénon map conservative_henon_map: Hénon's area-preserving quadratic map, a rotation by 2π nu with a quadratic kick.
  • Nosé-Hoover oscillator nose_hoover: The Nosé-Hoover oscillator x' = y, y' = y z - x, z' = 1 - y², with tori next to a chaotic sea.
  • Standard standard_map: The Chirikov standard map p' = p + K sin θ, θ' = θ + p', with global chaos above K ≈ 0.9716.

kinetic

  • BGK bgk_equation: The BGK equation of the Sod shock tube over one position and one velocity axis.
  • Bertin-Droz-Grégoire kinetic flocking bertin_droz_gregoire: The kinetic theory of flocking, whose polar order grows above a transition density.
  • Boltzmann boltzmann_equation: The Boltzmann equation of Maxwell molecules over one position and two velocity axes.
  • Criminality and security criminality: The kinetic system of criminality in a society and the security forces that act against it.
  • Enskog equations enskog: The local Enskog equation, the Boltzmann equation with the contact value of the pair correlation of disks.
  • Exchange with debt limit and with saving propensity kinetic_wealth_exchange: A kinetic wealth exchange system with a saving propensity or a debt limit.
  • Immune competition immune_competition: The kinetic system of the competition between tumour cells and immune cells.
  • Kinetic evacuation of a network of rooms evacuation: The kinetic system of the evacuation of a building whose rooms form a network.
  • Kinetic opinion formation kinetic_opinion: The kinetic system of opinion formation over a discrete grid of opinions.
  • Kinetic wealth and welfare dynamics kinetic_wealth_welfare: The kinetic theory of wealth classes, with a welfare policy when the tax is positive.
  • Vlasov vlasov_equation: The Vlasov-Poisson equation of electrons over a neutralizing background, on a periodic position axis.

kinetic theory

kirchhoff

kleiber law

knock-out

kolkata paise restaurant

  • Kolkata Paise Restaurant kolkata_restaurant: The Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem, where diners spread over restaurants that serve one meal each.

koopman

kronecker product

  • Kronecker graphs kronecker_graph: The Kronecker graph of two graphs, whose adjacency matrix is the Kronecker product of theirs.

labour

  • Car wash queue car_wash: Chesney's Clean and Wax hand car wash, a shadow account of the revenue of its workers' labour.
  • Labour market labour_market: Hamill and Gilbert's labour market of firms posting wage offers and unemployed workers searching.

labour exploitation

  • Ajani's Choice ajanis_choice: Chesney's Ajani's Choice, migrant farm workers and employers among whom underpayment emerges.

labour standards

lagrangian

  • Double pendulum double_pendulum: A double pendulum, a pendulum hanging from the bob of another, written as its two Lagrange equations.
  • Gyroscope in a gimbal gimballed_gyroscope: A gyroscope in a gimbal: a rotor in an inner ring that turns in an outer ring about a fixed axis.
  • Keplerian dumbbell and spin-orbit coupling keplerian_dumbbell: The Keplerian dumbbell: two masses on a rigid massless arm that orbit a primary under gravity.
  • Pendulum on a sliding cart cart_pendulum: A pendulum hanging from a cart that slides without friction along a horizontal track.
  • Rotating swing rotating_swing: A rotating swing: chairs on chains hanging from the rods of a stand that turns about a vertical axis.

lags

lamplighter

  • Lamplighter lamplighter_automaton: The parity automaton on a ball of the lamplighter group, a linear rule over the field of two elements.

land surface

land use

  • Rice land, population, and food security rice_food_balance: Bala's food security model, rice land that grows towards the land available against a growing population.
  • Von Thünen land use von_thunen: A square plain around one market at its centre, whose every cell grows the crop of highest bid rent.

landscape

lanes

langevin

langevin equation

language

  • Miller's random typewriting random_typewriting: Miller's random typewriting, monkeys whose random keystrokes give Zipf's law of word frequencies.
  • Naming game naming_game: The minimal naming game, where agents with empty inventories agree on one word.
  • Simon-Yule growth simon_yule: The Simon system of a text that grows from one word, whose word counts follow a power law.

large deviations

lateral inhibition

lattice

  • Bak-Sneppen bak_sneppen: The Bak-Sneppen system, whose fitnesses self-organise above a critical value in avalanches of extinction.
  • Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld sandpile sandpile: The Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld sandpile on a lattice with open edges, started from random stable heights.
  • COMETS: dynamic flux balance on a lattice with diffusion comets: An expanding colony of the E. coli core system on a lattice, which needs the extra metabolism.
  • Cellular Potts model of cell sorting on square, triangular, and disordered lattices cellular_potts: The cellular Potts model of a confluent tissue whose cells of several kinds sort by differential adhesion.
  • Contact process contact_process: The contact process on a periodic lattice, which survives above a critical infection rate near 1.65.
  • Cyclic cellular automaton cyclic_cellular_automaton: Griffeath's cyclic cellular automaton, whose random levels organize into spiral waves.
  • Diffusion automaton diffusion_automaton: A cellular automaton of diffusion, c' = c + r Σ (c_neighbour - c), started from a square of ones.
  • Discrete master equation discrete_master_equation: The discrete-time master equation of states on a ring, which relaxes to the Boltzmann distribution.
  • Drossel-Schwabl forest fire forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire, where slow growth and rare lightning give fires of every size.
  • Edwards-Anderson spin glass edwards_anderson: The Edwards-Anderson spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with quenched random bonds.
  • Elementary automata elementary_automaton: An elementary cellular automaton by its Wolfram number, started from a single live cell by default.
  • Employment takeover employment_takeover: The employment takeover system on a periodic checkerboard, with half of each kind coloured at random.
  • FHP lattice gas fhp_lattice_gas: The FHP-I lattice gas on a periodic triangular lattice, with a dense disc that spreads into the gas.
  • Fixed-energy sandpile fixed_energy_sandpile: The fixed-energy sandpile, a Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld pile with no drive and no loss on a periodic lattice.
  • Forest fire on hexagonal lattices and graphs hexagonal_forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire on a triangular lattice of hexagonal cells, or on the nodes of a graph.
  • Fredkin's self-replicating parity automaton fredkin_replicator: Fredkin's parity automaton, whose local law copies any initial pattern into translated replicas.
  • Fully biased walk among quenched broad traps biased_trap_walk: Walkers that hop always to the right through quenched traps with broadly distributed trapping times.
  • Game of Life game_of_life: Conway's Game of Life, or another life-like rule, on a torus.
  • Group-valued difference automaton group_difference_automaton: The automaton τ(x)(n) = x(n)^-1 x(n + 1) whose alphabet is a finite group, on a ring.
  • HPP lattice gas hpp_lattice_gas: The HPP lattice gas on a periodic square lattice, whose particles move along four directions and collide.
  • Highlife and the planar automaton zoo highlife: HighLife, B36/S23, or any other life-like automaton of the planar zoo by its rule, on a torus.
  • Hodgepodge machine hodgepodge: The hodgepodge machine, a system of a chemical reaction whose waves form spirals.
  • Involutive automaton involutive_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is its own inverse, with the minimal memory set {-1, 0, ..., n}.
  • Ising ising: The two-dimensional Ising system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature 2 / ln(1 + sqrt 2).
  • Iterated prisoner's dilemma on a lattice with strategies of cooperation rounds iterated_lattice_dilemma: Argun's evolutionary iterated prisoner's dilemma on a lattice, with strategies of n cooperation rounds.
  • Julia sets julia: The filled Julia set of z -> z^2 + c, the starting points whose orbit stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5).
  • LEGION oscillators legion: A LEGION network, a lattice of relaxation oscillators that segments a stimulus into its objects.
  • Langton's ant langtons_ant: Langton's ant, which wanders chaotically for about 10,000 steps before it builds a periodic highway.
  • Lattice Maxwell and gauge link fields lattice_gauge_fields: Link variables on the cell complex of a periodic lattice, sampled or evolved in real time.
  • Lattice Yang-Mills and pure lattice QCD lattice_yang_mills: SU(2) or SU(3) matrices on the links of a periodic lattice, sampled by the Wilson action.
  • Lenia and its expanded universe lenia: Lenia, a continuous automaton whose ring-kernel convolutions grow gliding, lifelike solitons.
  • Majority rule automaton majority_rule: Voters that take the majority opinion of their neighbourhood, which coarsens into domains.
  • Mandelbrot set mandelbrot: The Mandelbrot set, the points c whose orbit of z -> z^2 + c from 0 stays bounded (Dilão 2023 §5.5).
  • Manna sandpile manna_sandpile: The Manna sandpile, a stochastic sandpile of another universality class than Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld.
  • Mattis spin glass mattis_spin_glass: The Mattis spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with couplings J_ij = J xi_i xi_j of a pattern xi.
  • Nagel-Schreckenberg nagel_schreckenberg: The Nagel-Schreckenberg traffic system on a ring road, where jams emerge above a critical density.
  • Neutral birth-death with hopping between boxes neutral_clustering: Organisms that divide, die, and hop between patches on a periodic lattice, and gather in clusters.
  • Nilpotent automaton of class n nilpotent_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is nilpotent of class n: n steps send every configuration to 0.
  • Noisy automata noisy_automata: An elementary cellular automaton whose outputs are flipped at random with a small probability.
  • Olami-Feder-Christensen earthquakes: The Olami-Feder-Christensen earthquake system with open edges, started from random forces.
  • Potts potts: The q-state Potts system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature 1 / ln(1 + sqrt q).
  • Power-series automaton power_series_automaton: The automaton τ(x)(n) = x(n) - t x(n + 1) over the ring K[[t]] of formal power series on a ring.
  • Public goods game public_goods_game: The spatial public goods game in groups of five neighbours, with Fermi imitation.
  • Q2R reversible Ising automaton q2r: The Q2R automaton, a reversible, energy-conserving Ising dynamics on a periodic lattice of even sides.
  • Quantum Heisenberg system quantum_heisenberg: A chain of spins one half with the XXZ Hamiltonian, a field, and optional dephasing.
  • Real quadratic automaton real_quadratic_automaton: The automaton τ(x)(n) = x(n + 1) - x(n)^2 over the reals on a ring.
  • Rock-paper-scissors rock_paper_scissors: Rock, paper, and scissors on a lattice, whose cyclic invasions keep the three strategies coexisting.
  • Site percolation site_percolation: Site percolation probed by a fire lit along the top row, which spans the lattice above p_c = 0.5927.
  • Spatial prisoner's dilemma with best-neighbour and Fermi imitation spatial_prisoners_dilemma: The spatial prisoner's dilemma of Nowak and May, with best-neighbour or Fermi imitation.
  • Subtraction automaton over the naturals subtraction_automaton: The automaton τ(x)(n) = max(0, x(n) - x(n + 1)) over the naturals, whose image is not closed.
  • TASEP tasep: The totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with parallel update, on an open line or a ring.
  • Traders and exchange rates coupled through arbitrage as lattice electrodynamics gauge_arbitrage_market: Exchange-rate potentials on links as lattice Maxwell fields, sourced by traders who move a good on sites.
  • Turing machine (three-state busy beaver) turing_machine: A Turing machine, a head with an internal state that reads, writes, and moves on a tape of symbols.
  • Unbounded-alphabet automaton unbounded_alphabet_automaton: An additive automaton over the nonnegative integers, x'(n) = x(n - 1) + x(n), from a single 1.
  • Von Thünen land use von_thunen: A square plain around one market at its centre, whose every cell grows the crop of highest bid rent.
  • XY xy: The XY system of planar spins on a torus, with vortices that bind below the Kosterlitz-Thouless point.
  • Zhang sandpile zhang_sandpile: The Zhang sandpile, a continuous sandpile whose unstable sites give away all their energy.

lattice gas

  • FHP lattice gas fhp_lattice_gas: The FHP-I lattice gas on a periodic triangular lattice, with a dense disc that spreads into the gas.
  • HPP lattice gas hpp_lattice_gas: The HPP lattice gas on a periodic square lattice, whose particles move along four directions and collide.

leadership

learning

learning curve

  • NK technology system nk_technology: McNerney's system of technological improvement, whose cost falls as a power of the cumulative production.

least effort

leukaemia

levitation

life

life cycle

  • Hilsa fishery hilsa_fishery: A hilsa fishery, the life cycle of a migratory fish that the catch of juveniles and spawners depletes.

light

limit cycle

  • Brusselator ODE brusselator_ode: The well-mixed Brusselator, which oscillates on a limit cycle when b > 1 + a**2.
  • Forced Van der Pol forced_van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillator driven by a periodic force, x'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x + A cos(ω t).
  • Fractional Van der Pol fractional_van_der_pol: The fractional Van der Pol oscillator D^alpha x = y, D^alpha y = mu (1 - x^2) y - x.
  • Hopf hopf_form: The Hopf normal form, whose focus gives birth to a limit cycle of radius √(-μ / a) as μ crosses 0.
  • Huygens clocks and pendulums on coupled supports huygens_clocks: Pendulum clocks on supports joined by springs, which synchronize through the motion of the supports.
  • Saltzman-Maasch glaciation saltzman_glaciation: The glacial cycles of Saltzman and Maasch, a self-sustained oscillation of ice, carbon, and ocean.
  • Stuart-Landau stuart_landau: The Stuart-Landau oscillator z' = (μ + i ω) z - (1 + i β) |z|² z, the normal form of a Hopf bifurcation.
  • Subcritical Hopf normal form subcritical_hopf_form: The subcritical Hopf normal form, where a stable focus coexists with a stable limit cycle.
  • Tunnel-diode oscillator tunnel_diode_oscillator: A tunnel-diode oscillator: an inductor and a capacitor in parallel with a negative-resistance diode.
  • Van der Pol van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillator x'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x, which settles on a limit cycle for μ > 0.
  • Van der Pol ice ages van_der_pol_ice_ages: Glacial cycles as a Van der Pol relaxation oscillator, optionally paced by orbital forcing.

linear

linear dynamics

  • Sequentially linear ecosystem sequentially_linear_ecosystem: An ecosystem whose abundances follow linear dynamics between extinctions that rewrite its network.

linear map

  • Linear network herding network_herding: Agents whose linear choices herd on the past choices of the agents they are linked to.

linear program

linear system

linear-quadratic

linear-quadratic regulator

liquid crystal

  • Dry active nematics dry_active_nematics: A dry active nematic, a conserved density coupled to a symmetric traceless alignment tensor.

livelihood

  • Crop livestock household crop_livestock_household: Bala's crop livestock model, a farming household that adds livestock rearing to its crop income.

livestock

  • Crop livestock household crop_livestock_household: Bala's crop livestock model, a farming household that adds livestock rearing to its crop income.

lockdown

log kill

logical network

logistic

logistic map

lognormal

  • Gibrat gibrat_process: Firms that grow by Gibrat's law of proportionate effect, which makes their sizes lognormal.

long memory

  • Fractional Brownian motion fractional_brownian_motion: Fractional Brownian motion, dx = sqrt(2 D) dB_H, with <x^2> = 2 D t^(2 H) along every axis.

lookup tables

  • Population and pollution population_pollution: The pollution model of Bala, Arshad, and Noh, a population that degrades its environment.

lumped system

  • Lumped cardiovascular system cardiovascular: A closed lumped system of the systemic circulation driven by a left ventricle of varying elastance.

macroecology

  • Neutral macroecology neutral_macroecology: Many species under neutral birth, death, and immigration, whose abundances follow a gamma-like law.

macroeconomics

magnetism

majority

  • Automata on the Grigorchuk group grigorchuk_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Grigorchuk group, a group of intermediate growth.
  • Automata on the free group free_group_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the free group, a tree in which every cell follows its neighbours.
  • Baumslag-Solitar groups baumslag_solitar_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Baumslag-Solitar group BS(m, n), of exponential growth.
  • Galam majority galam_majority: The Galam majority system, where random groups adopt their majority until one opinion wins.
  • Heisenberg heisenberg_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the discrete Heisenberg group, of polynomial growth of degree 4.
  • Majority rule with willingness and zealots willing_majority: The majority rule with willingness, where zealots of willingness 0 never change their opinion.

map

market

  • Bilateral barter of two or three goods goods_traders: Traders who wander a grid and barter two or three goods with their neighbours.
  • Cobweb cobweb: A market whose price converges to or oscillates around equilibrium as supply lags the price.
  • Cournot duopoly with beliefs cournot_duopoly: Two Cournot duopolists that adjust their output to their beliefs about each other.
  • Edgeworth and Red Cross barter barter: Barter of chocolate and cigarettes, in an Edgeworth box of two barterers or among many prisoners.
  • Firm and bank credit networks credit_networks: A credit market where firms sample banks and switch to cheaper lenders, and defaults hit the lenders.
  • Labour market labour_market: Hamill and Gilbert's labour market of firms posting wage offers and unemployed workers searching.
  • Produce market produce_market: Hamill and Gilbert's produce market, where shoppers with lists of produce visit stalls at random.
  • Riccati price adjustment riccati_prices: A price that moves with excess demand under linear demand and saturating quadratic supply.
  • Shops and digital markets shops: Shops on a grid that compete for the shoppers on every cell, in person or in a digital market.
  • Zero-intelligence double auction double_auction: Gode and Sunder's double auction of zero-intelligence traders, a step per trading period.

market impact

market sight

marketing

  • Bass diffusion bass_diffusion: The Bass diffusion system, people who adopt a new product through advertising and word of mouth.

markov chain

  • Brock-Mirman stochastic growth brock_mirman_growth: The Brock-Mirman economy, the optimal growth of a representative agent whose productivity is Markov.
  • Ehrenfest urn system of two boxes ehrenfest_urn: The Ehrenfest urn system, balls moved one at a time between two boxes, which relaxes to equal counts.
  • Hidden Markov source hidden_markov_source: A hidden Markov source, whose symbols are emitted at random from the states of a hidden Markov chain.
  • Markov source markov_source: A Markov source, a sequence of symbols in which each symbol depends on the one before it.

mass action

mass conserving

mass extinctions

  • Rothman excitable carbon cycle carbon_cycle: Rothman's excitable carbon cycle, where a large enough perturbation of the ocean sets off an excursion.

mass spring damper

master equation

master stability function

matching

  • Labour market labour_market: Hamill and Gilbert's labour market of firms posting wage offers and unemployed workers searching.
  • Ridesharing ridesharing: Riders who request trips on a city grid and cabs that a stable matching sends to them.

maxwell

mean field

measurement error

  • Fishery with measurement errors fishery_measurement_errors: Independent fisheries whose quota is set from a measurement of the stock with a Gaussian error.

mechanics

  • Ballistic pendulum ballistic_pendulum: A bullet that sticks in the block of a pendulum at rest, which then swings up.
  • Bouncing ball bouncing_ball: A ball that falls under gravity and bounces off the floor, losing speed by a coefficient of restitution.
  • Circular billiard circular_billiard: A particle moving freely inside a circle and reflecting specularly off its wall.
  • Coupled pendulums coupled_pendulums: Two pendulums whose bobs are joined by a spring, which pass their energy back and forth.
  • Double pendulum double_pendulum: A double pendulum, a pendulum hanging from the bob of another, written as its two Lagrange equations.
  • Driven damped oscillator driven_damped_oscillator: A mass on a spring with damping and a periodic force, m x'' = -k x - c x' + F cos(ω t).
  • Gyroscope in a gimbal gimballed_gyroscope: A gyroscope in a gimbal: a rotor in an inner ring that turns in an outer ring about a fixed axis.
  • Harmonic oscillator harmonic_oscillator: A particle on a spring, optionally damped.
  • Huygens clocks and pendulums on coupled supports huygens_clocks: Pendulum clocks on supports joined by springs, which synchronize through the motion of the supports.
  • Keplerian dumbbell and spin-orbit coupling keplerian_dumbbell: The Keplerian dumbbell: two masses on a rigid massless arm that orbit a primary under gravity.
  • Magnetic pendulum magnetic_pendulum: A magnetic bob on a string swinging above magnets on a circle, which comes to rest at one of them.
  • Mass-spring oscillator with static and Coulomb friction friction_oscillator: A mass on a linear spring with static, Coulomb, and viscous friction, m x'' + c x' + k x + f = 0.
  • N-body and solar system n_body: Bodies in the plane that attract each other pairwise by Newtonian gravity.
  • Newton's cradle newtons_cradle: Newton's cradle: pendulum balls in a row that pass momentum along by elastic collisions.
  • Particle in the well k x^2 e^-x particle_in_a_well: A particle moving without friction in the potential U(x) = k x² e^-x.
  • Pendulum pendulum: A pendulum, whose angle follows Newton's second law m l θ'' = -m g sin θ.
  • Pendulum on a sliding cart cart_pendulum: A pendulum hanging from a cart that slides without friction along a horizontal track.
  • Pendulum with a vertically or horizontally oscillating pivot parametric_pendulum: A pendulum whose suspension point oscillates vertically or horizontally, with acceleration ε g cos Ω t.
  • Projectile projectile: A particle launched under uniform gravity, optionally slowed by linear drag.
  • Relativistic orbit equation relativistic_orbit: Einstein's orbit equation u'' + u = alpha + epsilon u² of a planet, whose perihelion precesses.
  • Restricted three-body problem restricted_three_body: A light body moving in the plane of two primaries on circular orbits, in the frame that rotates with them.
  • Rotating balls on rods rotating_balls_on_rods: Two balls on rods that turn about a vertical axis and conserve their angular momentum.
  • Rotating swing rotating_swing: A rotating swing: chairs on chains hanging from the rods of a stand that turns about a vertical axis.
  • Sitnikov problem sitnikov: A light body moving on the axis through the centre of mass of two equal primaries, normal to their orbit.
  • Spring chains and guitar string spring_chain: Masses joined in a row by springs of zero rest length between two anchors, a discrete string.
  • Störmer charge in a dipole field stormer_problem: A charged particle moving in the magnetic dipole field of a planet, the Störmer problem.
  • Two-body orbit two_body_orbit: A light planet orbiting a heavy star under Newtonian gravity, as the Kepler problem of their separation.
  • Two-mass spring-damper between walls two_mass_spring_damper: Two masses between two walls, tied to the walls and to each other by springs, with dampers and forces.

mechatronics

memory

  • Adaptrode synapse adaptrode: An Adaptrode synapse driven by a train of input pulses that stops after a while.
  • Fractional Lorenz fractional_lorenz: The fractional Lorenz flow of Grigorenko and Grigorenko, chaotic for orders close enough to 1.
  • Fractional Van der Pol fractional_van_der_pol: The fractional Van der Pol oscillator D^alpha x = y, D^alpha y = mu (1 - x^2) y - x.
  • Fractional damped oscillator fractional_oscillator: The fractional damped oscillator D^alpha x = v, D^alpha v = -omega^2 x - 2 gamma v.
  • Fractional relaxation fractional_relaxation: Fractional relaxation D^alpha x = -lambda x, which decays as the Mittag-Leffler function E_alpha.
  • Random walk with autoregressive velocity random_walk_with_memory: Random walks whose velocity is an autoregressive process, x ← x + v and v ← alpha v + xi.

memristor

  • Memristive mixed-mode oscillator memristive_mixed_mode_oscillator: A slow-fast circuit with a cubic flux-controlled memristor, whose oscillations mix two amplitudes.
  • Memristor oscillator memristor_oscillator: The simplest memristor oscillator: a capacitor, an inductor, and a memristor in series.

merging

mesh

  • Heat on an L-shaped domain heat_l_shape: Heat on the L-shaped domain with fixed boundary temperatures, discretised by linear finite elements.

metabolic oscillations

metabolic scaling

metabolism

metapopulation

metastability

metastasis

microbial community

microphase separation

microswimmers

  • Squirmers squirmers: Spherical squirmers that swim at 2 B1 / 3 and stir each other as pushers or pullers.

milling

  • Rice milling system rice_milling: A rice milling system, a mill that buys paddy, mills it into rice and by-products, and sells them.

min proteins

minimal

  • Morse subshift morse_subshift: The Thue-Morse substitution 0 → 01, 1 → 10, whose words make the language of the Morse subshift.

minority game

mixed phase space

mixed-mode oscillations

mixing

  • Baker baker_map: The generalized baker map, which stretches the unit square along x and stacks the two pieces in y.
  • Cat map cat_map: Arnold's cat map (x, y) → (2x + y, x + y) (mod 1), an area-preserving hyperbolic map of the torus.

mode locking

  • Circle circle_map: The sine circle map θ' = θ + Ω - K / (2π) sin 2πθ (mod 1), which locks into Arnold tongues.

model predictive control

modern slavery

  • Fair Food Program fair_food_program: Chesney's Fair Food Program, in which pressure on tomato buyers draws farms into fair wages.

molecular computation

molecular dynamics

  • Lennard-Jones fluid lennard_jones_fluid: Lennard-Jones particles in a periodic square box, optionally held at a temperature by a thermostat.

momentum

  • Ballistic pendulum ballistic_pendulum: A bullet that sticks in the block of a pendulum at rest, which then swings up.
  • Newton's cradle newtons_cradle: Newton's cradle: pendulum balls in a row that pass momentum along by elastic collisions.
  • Pendulum on a sliding cart cart_pendulum: A pendulum hanging from a cart that slides without friction along a horizontal track.

monetary policy

money

monte carlo

morse-smale

mortality

motifs

multi-valued

multilayer

multilevel selection

multiplex

multiplicative noise

multiplicative process

  • Gibrat gibrat_process: Firms that grow by Gibrat's law of proportionate effect, which makes their sizes lognormal.
  • Kesten processes kesten_process: Firms whose sizes follow Kesten's process, a random multiplicative factor plus a random positive term.
  • Multiplicative multiplicative_process: Levy and Solomon's multiplicative process, whose floor at a fraction of the mean makes a power-law tail.

multiscale

multistability

  • Magnetic pendulum magnetic_pendulum: A magnetic bob on a string swinging above magnets on a circle, which comes to rest at one of them.

mutation

mutualism

  • Mutualism mutualism: Two species that grow logistically and feed each other, above their carrying capacities.

myelination

nadh

nanomedicine

nanotubes

naturals

necrosis

negative feedback

neighborhood

neighbours

  • Szabó cell system szabo_cells: The cells of Szabó et al. (2006) in a periodic box, which move together above a critical density.

nematic

  • Active nematic and polar gels active_gels: An active gel, a nematic tensor or a polarisation transported in the Stokes flow of its own stresses.
  • Dry active nematics dry_active_nematics: A dry active nematic, a conserved density coupled to a symmetric traceless alignment tensor.
  • Ginelli nematic particles ginelli_nematics: Polar particles with nematic alignment, which order along a common axis but move both ways along it.

net energy

network

network effect

  • Fixed-line phone adoption phone_adoption: Hamill and Gilbert's adoption of fixed-line phones by British households from 1951.

network geometry

network motifs

networks

neural field

  • Amari neural field amari_neural_field: The Amari neural field, whose lateral inhibition holds a stationary bump of activity.

neural mass

  • Next-generation neural mass with theta forcing next_generation_neural_mass: The exact neural mass of quadratic integrate-and-fire neurons whose gamma rhythm nests in a theta drive.
  • Wilson-Cowan wilson_cowan: The Wilson-Cowan system of interacting excitatory and inhibitory populations of neurons.

neural network

neuron

  • FitzHugh-Nagumo ODE fitzhugh_nagumo_ode: The FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron, the two-variable reduction of Hodgkin and Huxley's excitable membrane.
  • Hodgkin-Huxley hodgkin_huxley: The Hodgkin-Huxley neuron, whose sodium and potassium channels produce action potentials.
  • Integrate-and-fire integrate_and_fire: The leaky integrate-and-fire neuron, tau v' = -(v - rest) + R I, which spikes and resets at a threshold.
  • Izhikevich izhikevich: The Izhikevich neuron, whose four parameters give regular spiking, bursting, chattering, and more.
  • Networks of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons with delays delayed_lif_network: A random network of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons whose spikes reach their targets after a delay.
  • Polyhomeostatic neuron polyhomeostatic_neuron: A neuron that adapts its gain and threshold so its firing rate approaches an exponential distribution.
  • Theta neurons and QIF networks theta_neurons: A network of theta neurons, equivalently quadratic integrate-and-fire neurons, coupled all to all.

neurons

neutral networks

neutral theory

next generation

niche theory

nilpotent

  • Heisenberg heisenberg_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the discrete Heisenberg group, of polynomial growth of degree 4.
  • Nilpotent automaton of class n nilpotent_automaton: A binary automaton on a ring that is nilpotent of class n: n steps send every configuration to 0.

node turnover

noise

noise traders

non-closed image

non-ergodic

  • Scaled Brownian motion scaled_brownian_motion: Scaled Brownian motion, dx = sqrt(2 K alpha (t + t0)^(alpha - 1)) dW, with <x^2> ~ 2 K t^alpha.

non-growing network

non-local

  • GKT non-local traffic gkt_traffic: The gas-kinetic-based traffic system, where drivers brake on the traffic at an interaction point ahead.

nonequilibrium

nonequilibrium steady state

nonlocal coupling

  • Nonlocal ring chimera nonlocal_ring_chimera: Identical phase oscillators on a ring, each coupled to its R nearest neighbours on both sides.

nonreciprocal

  • Nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard nonreciprocal_cahn_hilliard: The nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard equations, a demixing field coupled to a diffusing one.
  • Nonreciprocal Vicsek system nonreciprocal_vicsek: Two species of Vicsek movers in a periodic box whose alignment with each other is nonreciprocal.

nonrenewable resource

  • Oil economy oil_economy: Meadows' oil economy, capital that grows on a nonrenewable resource and collapses as it runs out.

nonstationary

normal form

  • Cusp normal forms cusp_form: The cusp normal form x' = β1 + β2 x - x³, bistable inside the cusp 27 β1² < 4 β2³.
  • Hopf hopf_form: The Hopf normal form, whose focus gives birth to a limit cycle of radius √(-μ / a) as μ crosses 0.
  • Saddle-node saddle_node_form: The saddle-node normal form x' = μ - x², whose two equilibria ±√μ meet and vanish at μ = 0.
  • Subcritical Hopf normal form subcritical_hopf_form: The subcritical Hopf normal form, where a stable focus coexists with a stable limit cycle.
  • Takens-Bogdanov takens_bogdanov_form: The Takens-Bogdanov normal form x' = y, y' = β1 + β2 x + x² + s x y, where a saddle-node meets a Hopf.

normal modes

  • Coupled pendulums coupled_pendulums: Two pendulums whose bobs are joined by a spring, which pass their energy back and forth.
  • Spring chains and guitar string spring_chain: Masses joined in a row by springs of zero rest length between two anchors, a discrete string.
  • Standing waves on a string standing_waves: A string with fixed ends on [-length / 2, length / 2] that vibrates as a standing wave.
  • Two-mass spring-damper between walls two_mass_spring_damper: Two masses between two walls, tied to the walls and to each other by springs, with dampers and forces.

not sofic

  • Context-free subshift context_free_subshift: A Markov chain on the context-free subshift, ternary rings where every block 0 1^h 2^k 0 has h = k.

notch-delta

nuclear physics

  • Nuclear quadrupole vibrations nuclear_quadrupole: The quadrupole vibrations of a nuclear surface, a Hamiltonian system of two degrees of freedom.

nutrient

  • Droop cell-quota growth droop_cell_quota: The Droop system, a phytoplankton whose growth rate follows the nutrient stored in its cells.

obesity

  • Obesity system obesity: The obesity system of adults who eat near home and work, one step per day.

ode

odometer

  • Adding machine (odometer) adding_machine: The adding machine r → r + 1 on the q-adic integers, the odometer acting on the q-ary tree.

oligopoly

  • Cournot duopoly with beliefs cournot_duopoly: Two Cournot duopolists that adjust their output to their beliefs about each other.
  • Static oligopoly equilibria oligopoly_equilibria: The equilibria of a Cournot duopoly and of a pricing game of firms with loyal customers and switchers.

oncolytic virus

open system

  • Quantum Heisenberg system quantum_heisenberg: A chain of spins one half with the XXZ Hamiltonian, a field, and optional dephasing.

open-ended evolution

opinion

  • Belief diffusion with influentials influentials: The belief diffusion system with influentials who care passionately and weigh more with their neighbours.
  • Coevolving voter coevolving_voter: The coevolving voter system, which fragments into consensual components when rewiring is fast.
  • Cognitive consistency agents cognitive_consistency: Agents whose attitudes spread by conversation and settle in a belief network that seeks consistency.
  • Deffuant bounded confidence deffuant: The Deffuant bounded confidence system, whose opinions settle into about 1 / (2 * confidence) clusters.
  • Echo chambers and radicalization on an activity-driven network echo_chamber_radicalization: The radicalization model of echo chambers of Baumann and coauthors on an activity-driven network.
  • Galam majority galam_majority: The Galam majority system, where random groups adopt their majority until one opinion wins.
  • Hegselmann-Krause hegselmann_krause: The Hegselmann-Krause system, whose opinions freeze within a few steps into clusters about 2 ε apart.
  • Join-a-club spins join_a_club: Join-a-club spins, agents who join a club with their acquaintances while acquaintances follow the club.
  • Kinetic opinion formation kinetic_opinion: The kinetic system of opinion formation over a discrete grid of opinions.
  • Majority rule automaton majority_rule: Voters that take the majority opinion of their neighbourhood, which coarsens into domains.
  • Majority rule with willingness and zealots willing_majority: The majority rule with willingness, where zealots of willingness 0 never change their opinion.
  • Mean-field flows of undecided agents undecided_flows: The mean-field flows between agents against, A, undecided, C, and for, B.
  • Naming game naming_game: The minimal naming game, where agents with empty inventories agree on one word.
  • Nonlinear three-body consensus on temporal hypergraphs hypergraph_consensus: The nonlinear three-body consensus system on a random hypergraph of triangles that switch on and off.
  • Social impact theory social_impact: The social impact system on a full grid, with random persuasiveness and supportiveness.
  • Sznajd sznajd: The Sznajd system, where agreeing pairs of agents convince their neighbours.
  • Three-state opinion with undecided agents three_state_opinion: The three-state opinion system of agents against, undecided, and for, on a random regular network.
  • Threshold adoption threshold_adoption: The threshold adoption system in social circles, started by the 2.5% of agents with the lowest thresholds.
  • Voter system voter_system: A voter system with one voter per node of a network.
  • Voter variants voter_variants: Voter system variants on a network, with threshold voters and a share of contrarians.

opinions

optical forces

  • Diffusion in a speckle field diffusion_in_a_speckle_field: Brownian particles in a random speckle field, trapped at hotspots for longer as the field grows stronger.

optical tweezers

optimal control

optimal growth

  • Brock-Mirman stochastic growth brock_mirman_growth: The Brock-Mirman economy, the optimal growth of a representative agent whose productivity is Markov.

optimisation

orbits

  • Satellite transfer satellite_transfer: A satellite moved between Kepler orbits of equal angular momentum by radial thrust.

order book

organizations

  • Insider sabotage insider_sabotage: The insider sabotage system of employees whose risk of sabotage builds up over the days of a year.

origin of life

oscillation

  • Adler equation adler_equation: The Adler equation Δφ' = Δω + ε sin Δφ for the phase difference of an oscillator and its drive.
  • Agent-based Lotka-Volterra agent_based_lotka_volterra: Prey and predators that walk on a grid, whose numbers cycle like the Lotka-Volterra equations.
  • Brusselator ODE brusselator_ode: The well-mixed Brusselator, which oscillates on a limit cycle when b > 1 + a**2.
  • Brusselator fields brusselator: The Brusselator reaction-diffusion system from small noise around its steady state (a, b / a).
  • Coupled pendulums coupled_pendulums: Two pendulums whose bobs are joined by a spring, which pass their energy back and forth.
  • Driven damped oscillator driven_damped_oscillator: A mass on a spring with damping and a periodic force, m x'' = -k x - c x' + F cos(ω t).
  • ENSO delay oscillator enso: The delayed oscillator of El Niño of Suarez and Schopf, dT/dt = T - T^3 - alpha T(t - delta).
  • Grain storage system grain_storage: A retail grain store, whose orders through a supply line make its stock oscillate.
  • Harmonic oscillator harmonic_oscillator: A particle on a spring, optionally damped.
  • Hutchinson hutchinson: Hutchinson's delayed logistic equation, which oscillates around K when r * tau exceeds π/2.
  • Ikeda delay equation ikeda: The Ikeda delay equation x' = a sin x(t - tau) in the form of Dilão (2023, Exercise 6.4).
  • Lotka-Volterra lotka_volterra: Prey and predators whose populations oscillate through predation.
  • Lotka-Volterra with harvesting lotka_volterra_with_harvesting: Lotka-Volterra predation where both species are harvested with a constant effort.
  • Nicholson-Bailey nicholson_bailey: Hosts and parasitoids in discrete generations, whose equilibrium is unstable to growing oscillations.
  • Oregonator oregonator: The scaled Oregonator, the reduction of the FKN mechanism of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction.
  • Pendulum pendulum: A pendulum, whose angle follows Newton's second law m l θ'' = -m g sin θ.
  • Stuart-Landau stuart_landau: The Stuart-Landau oscillator z' = (μ + i ω) z - (1 + i β) |z|² z, the normal form of a Hopf bifurcation.
  • Tunnel-diode oscillator tunnel_diode_oscillator: A tunnel-diode oscillator: an inductor and a capacitor in parallel with a negative-resistance diode.
  • Two-mass spring-damper between walls two_mass_spring_damper: Two masses between two walls, tied to the walls and to each other by springs, with dampers and forces.
  • Van der Pol van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillator x'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x, which settles on a limit cycle for μ > 0.

oscillations

oscillator

oscillator death

  • Winfree system winfree: The Winfree system, theta_i' = omega_i + (K / N) sum_j P(theta_j) R(theta_i), with the sum over all j.

oscillators

outbreak

overgrazing

  • Tragedy of the meadow commons tragedy_of_the_commons: Herders whose cows graze a shared meadow, each adding cows while a cow pays, until the grass collapses.

overlapping portfolios

overload

pagerank

pair interaction

  • Active Brownian particles with local alignment aligning_active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles in a periodic box whose headings align with the neighbours within d0.
  • Cucker-Smale flocking cucker_smale_flocking: Cucker-Smale flocking, where every agent aligns its velocity with all others, weighted by distance.
  • Flocking with active and passive agents active_passive_flocking: The active and passive agents of Charbonneau (2017, section 10.4) in a periodic box.
  • Living crystals living_crystals: Active colloids of radius 1 with phoretic attraction, which gather into clusters that slowly coarsen.
  • Motility-induced phase separation motility_induced_phase_separation: Repulsive active Brownian disks of unit diameter, which phase separate into clusters at high speed.
  • Swarmalators swarmalators: Swarmalators, identical oscillators whose phases set their attraction and whose positions their coupling.

pair potential

  • Lennard-Jones fluid lennard_jones_fluid: Lennard-Jones particles in a periodic square box, optionally held at a temperature by a thermostat.

paleoclimate

  • Saltzman-Maasch glaciation saltzman_glaciation: The glacial cycles of Saltzman and Maasch, a self-sustained oscillation of ice, carbon, and ocean.
  • Van der Pol ice ages van_der_pol_ice_ages: Glacial cycles as a Van der Pol relaxation oscillator, optionally paced by orbital forcing.

panic

paradox of enrichment

parametric resonance

pareto

  • Bouchaud-Mézard wealth bouchaud_mezard_wealth: Bouchaud and Mezard's wealth dynamics, random multiplicative returns with exchange between neighbours.

parity

particles

partnerships

pascal triangle

  • Unbounded-alphabet automaton unbounded_alphabet_automaton: An additive automaton over the nonnegative integers, x'(n) = x(n - 1) + x(n), from a single 1.

pattern formation

payments

pde

pedestrians

pendulum

  • Pendulum swing-up pendulum_swing_up: A pendulum swung up to its inverted position by a bang-bang acceleration of its pivot.

perceptron

percolation

period doubling

periodic

persistence

  • Persistent random walk persistent_random_walk: Walkers on the integers that keep the direction of their last step with a probability.

petri net

pharmacokinetics

pharmacology

  • Cumulative drug toxicity drug_toxicity: The toxicity a weekly drug accumulates in the body, which the metabolism clears once the doses stop.
  • Two-compartment pharmacokinetics two_compartment_pharmacokinetics: The two-compartment pharmacokinetics of a bolus dose given into the central compartment.

phase

phase ordering

phase oscillators

phase separation

phase space

  • BGK bgk_equation: The BGK equation of the Sod shock tube over one position and one velocity axis.
  • Bertin-Droz-Grégoire kinetic flocking bertin_droz_gregoire: The kinetic theory of flocking, whose polar order grows above a transition density.
  • Boltzmann boltzmann_equation: The Boltzmann equation of Maxwell molecules over one position and two velocity axes.
  • Enskog equations enskog: The local Enskog equation, the Boltzmann equation with the contact value of the pair correlation of disks.
  • Vlasov vlasov_equation: The Vlasov-Poisson equation of electrons over a neutralizing background, on a periodic position axis.

phase transition

phenotype switching

phoresis

  • Living crystals living_crystals: Active colloids of radius 1 with phoretic attraction, which gather into clusters that slowly coarsen.

phosphorylation

physiology

  • Mackey-Glass mackey_glass: The Mackey-Glass equation x' = beta x(t - tau) / (1 + x(t - tau)^n) - gamma x of blood cell production.

phytoplankton

  • Droop cell-quota growth droop_cell_quota: The Droop system, a phytoplankton whose growth rate follows the nutrient stored in its cells.

pid

  • PID governance loop pid_loop: A work process whose output a PID controller keeps at a set point against a disturbance.
  • PID-stabilised inverted pendulum pid_inverted_pendulum: An inverted pendulum on a cart that a PID controller of its angle keeps upright.

piecewise

  • Exponential-linear tumour growth exponential_linear_growth: A tumour that grows exponentially while small and linearly once its growth reaches a limiting rate.

piecewise linear

  • Generalized tent map skew_tent_map: An ensemble of the skew tent map, whose density relaxes to the uniform invariant density for any a.
  • Lozi map lozi_map: The Lozi map x' = 1 + y - a |x|, y' = b x, the piecewise linear Hénon map with a strange attractor.
  • Mass-spring oscillator with static and Coulomb friction friction_oscillator: A mass on a linear spring with static, Coulomb, and viscous friction, m x'' + c x' + k x + f = 0.
  • Piecewise-linear intermittent androgen suppression piecewise_linear_ias: The Hirata piecewise-linear system of intermittent androgen suppression for one of three patient types.
  • Tent tent_map: The tent map x' = μ min(x, 1 - x), chaotic with Lyapunov exponent ln μ for μ above 1.

piezoelectric

  • Vibration energy harvester vibration_energy_harvester: A dual-mass piezoelectric harvester in a car suspension, driven by the roughness of the road.

plasma

  • Vlasov vlasov_equation: The Vlasov-Poisson equation of electrons over a neutralizing background, on a periodic position axis.

plasticity

polar

  • Active nematic and polar gels active_gels: An active gel, a nematic tensor or a polarisation transported in the Stokes flow of its own stresses.

polarization

policy

policy resistance

  • Policy resistance policy_resistance: Meadows' policy resistance trap, one stock pulled by three actors toward inconsistent goals.

pollution

  • Population and pollution population_pollution: The pollution model of Bala, Arshad, and Noh, a population that degrades its environment.

polymer

  • Active polymers active_polymer: An active polymer, a Rouse chain of active Brownian beads that each swim along their own orientation.

polymers

pontryagin

popularity-similarity

  • Popularity-similarity network popularity_similarity_network: Popularity-similarity growth, scale-free and clustered, whose nodes attach by hyperbolic distance.

population

  • Exponential growth exponential_growth: A population that grows or declines at a constant per-capita rate.
  • Fibonacci rabbits fibonacci_rabbits: Fibonacci's rabbits, N_{t+1} = N_t + N_{t-1}, where every pair older than one month breeds a new pair.
  • Hutchinson hutchinson: Hutchinson's delayed logistic equation, which oscillates around K when r * tau exceeds π/2.
  • Logistic growth logistic_growth: A population that grows logistically towards its carrying capacity.
  • Logistic growth with a varying capacity varying_capacity_logistic: Logistic growth under a seasonal carrying capacity, which settles on a cycle of the season's period.
  • Population and pollution population_pollution: The pollution model of Bala, Arshad, and Noh, a population that degrades its environment.
  • Ricker map of overcompensating generations ricker: Ricker's map of a population in discrete generations, n' = r n exp(-n), chaotic for large r.

population genetics

population growth

  • Droop cell-quota growth droop_cell_quota: The Droop system, a phytoplankton whose growth rate follows the nutrient stored in its cells.

positive feedback

potential

power grid

power law

power series

  • Power-series automaton power_series_automaton: The automaton τ(x)(n) = x(n) - t x(n + 1) over the ring K[[t]] of formal power series on a ring.

pre-injective

  • Real quadratic automaton real_quadratic_automaton: The automaton τ(x)(n) = x(n + 1) - x(n)^2 over the reals on a ring.

prebiotic

  • Hypercycles hypercycles: A network of self-replicating molecules whose catalysis keeps a set of them alive, a hypercycle.

precession

  • Relativistic orbit equation relativistic_orbit: Einstein's orbit equation u'' + u = alpha + epsilon u² of a planet, whose perihelion precesses.

predator-prey

preferential attachment

preferential return

price convergence

price discovery

price elasticity

prices

probability

  • Discrete master equation discrete_master_equation: The discrete-time master equation of states on a ring, which relaxes to the Boltzmann distribution.

productivity shocks

  • Brock-Mirman stochastic growth brock_mirman_growth: The Brock-Mirman economy, the optimal growth of a representative agent whose productivity is Markov.

prostate cancer

protein

protein corona

protein interaction network

public goods

  • Public goods game public_goods_game: The spatial public goods game in groups of five neighbours, with Fermi imitation.
  • Public goods game on hypergraphs hypergraph_public_goods: The public goods game on a hypergraph, played in every hyperedge, with Fermi imitation.

pullers

  • Squirmers squirmers: Spherical squirmers that swim at 2 B1 / 3 and stir each other as pushers or pullers.

pulse coupling

pulses

  • Pulsed electrochemical reactor pulsed_electrochemical_reactor: A stirred electrochemical reactor whose electrode is driven by a train of current pulses.
  • Wheel and rail contact wheel_rail_contact: A rail segment on a sleeper, loaded by the wheels of passing bogies.

punctuated equilibria

punctuated equilibrium

punishment

purchasing power

pushers

  • Squirmers squirmers: Spherical squirmers that swim at 2 B1 / 3 and stir each other as pushers or pullers.

q-adic integers

  • Adding machine (odometer) adding_machine: The adding machine r → r + 1 on the q-adic integers, the odometer acting on the q-ary tree.

qcd

quantum

quasi-geostrophic

quasispecies

  • Eigen quasispecies eigen_quasispecies: The shares of a population at every number of mutations from the master sequence, the linear chain system.

quenched mean field

  • Quenched mean-field SIS quenched_mean_field_sis: The SIS epidemic on a fixed network in quenched mean field, one infection probability per node.

queue

  • Car wash queue car_wash: Chesney's Clean and Wax hand car wash, a shadow account of the revenue of its workers' labour.

queueing

queues

  • Barabási priority queues priority_queues: The Barabási priority queue, whose waiting times follow a power law as the choice becomes greedy.
  • Ridesharing ridesharing: Riders who request trips on a city grid and cabs that a stable matching sends to them.

radiotherapy

railways

  • Wheel and rail contact wheel_rail_contact: A rail segment on a sleeper, loaded by the wheels of passing bogies.

ramachandran

ramp

random

random community

random energy system

random graph

random map

random observation

random walk

  • Ageing random walk ageing_random_walk: Ageing random walks, whose up steps become rarer the more of them a walker has taken.
  • Continuous-time random walk continuous_time_random_walk: The continuous-time random walk, Gaussian jumps after waiting times with the tail tau^(-1 - alpha).
  • Cubic chaotic map and its chaotic walk cubic_chaotic_map: Bertin's cubic chaotic map and the chaotic walk it drives, which spreads like a random walk.
  • Diffusion-limited aggregation diffusion_limited_aggregation: Diffusion-limited aggregation on a periodic grid, where random walkers stick to a seed at the center.
  • Lévy walk levy_walk: The Lévy walk, flights at constant speed in random directions for times with the tail tau^(-1 - sigma).
  • Ornstein-Uhlenbeck with weakening restoring force weakening_ornstein_uhlenbeck: Brownian particles held by a restoring force that weakens with distance.
  • Persistent random walk persistent_random_walk: Walkers on the integers that keep the direction of their last step with a probability.
  • Random walk with autoregressive velocity random_walk_with_memory: Random walks whose velocity is an autoregressive process, x ← x + v and v ← alpha v + xi.
  • Random walks network_random_walk: Random walkers on a network, which visit every node of a connected graph in proportion to its degree.
  • Random walks random_walk: Independent walkers on the integers that step at random times, a continuous-time random walk.
  • Random-walker epidemics on a grid and on a small world random_walker_epidemics: Random walkers among whom one sick walker starts a deadly epidemic, on a grid or on a network.
  • Size-biased random walk on hypergraphs hypergraph_random_walk: The size-biased random walk on a hypergraph, p_j' = sum_i p_i T_ij - p_j, from one node.
  • Superdiffusive Levy flight levy_flight: The Lévy flight, a walk whose jumps have lengths with the tail l^(-1 - mu) in random directions.

ratchet

  • On-off flashing ratchet flashing_ratchet: The on-off flashing ratchet, Brownian particles in a sawtooth potential switched on and off at random.

rate-induced tipping

rates

  • Kramers escape kramers_escape: Particles that escape over the barrier of U = x^4 / 4 - x^2 / 2 by thermal noise of intensity D.

reaction-diffusion

  • Brusselator fields brusselator: The Brusselator reaction-diffusion system from small noise around its steady state (a, b / a).
  • Fisher-KPP fisher_kpp: The Fisher-KPP equation, whose step invades the empty line as a front of speed 2 sqrt(r D).
  • Gray-Scott gray_scott: The Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion system, seeded in its middle, which grows spots that replicate.
  • Metapopulation reaction-diffusion metapopulation: SIR epidemics in subpopulations at the nodes of a network, linked by individuals who travel.
  • Min-protein skeleton system as mass-conserving reaction-diffusion min_protein_skeleton: The skeleton system of the Min proteins on a periodic line, a mass-conserving reaction-diffusion system.
  • Schnakenberg schnakenberg: The Schnakenberg reaction-diffusion system, which forms Turing patterns from noise when Dv >> Du.

reactor

  • Cubic autocatalysis cubic_autocatalysis: Cubic autocatalysis A + 2B -> 3B with the decay B -> C in a continuously fed reactor.

reals

  • Real quadratic automaton real_quadratic_automaton: The automaton τ(x)(n) = x(n + 1) - x(n)^2 over the reals on a ring.

record dynamics

recurrent network

red noise

region layers

regulation

  • Daisyworld daisyworld: Daisyworld, where white and black daisies regulate the temperature of their planet through its albedo.
  • Tragedy of the meadow commons tragedy_of_the_commons: Herders whose cows graze a shared meadow, each adding cows while a cow pays, until the grass collapses.

regulatory T cells

regulatory flux balance

reinforcement

  • Pólya urn polya_urn: Independent Pólya urns, whose share of red balls converges to a random limit with a beta distribution.

reinforcement learning

relaxation oscillation

  • Discrete-time SIRS with a recovery delay delayed_sirs: Two cities with recurrent outbreaks of a disease of fixed infection and immunity periods.
  • Oregonator oregonator: The scaled Oregonator, the reduction of the FKN mechanism of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction.

relaxation oscillations

  • FitzHugh-Nagumo ODE fitzhugh_nagumo_ode: The FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron, the two-variable reduction of Hodgkin and Huxley's excitable membrane.

relaxation oscillator

  • Van der Pol ice ages van_der_pol_ice_ages: Glacial cycles as a Van der Pol relaxation oscillator, optionally paced by orbital forcing.

remodelling

renewable resource

renewal

renewal process

  • Annealed transient time motion annealed_transient_time_motion: Annealed transient time motion, Brownian walkers whose diffusion coefficient changes at random times.
  • Bouchaud trap system trap_system: The Bouchaud trap system, walkers that escape from traps of exponentially distributed depths.
  • Continuous-time random walk continuous_time_random_walk: The continuous-time random walk, Gaussian jumps after waiting times with the tail tau^(-1 - alpha).
  • Lévy walk levy_walk: The Lévy walk, flights at constant speed in random directions for times with the tail tau^(-1 - sigma).

replicator

representative agent

  • Brock-Mirman stochastic growth brock_mirman_growth: The Brock-Mirman economy, the optimal growth of a representative agent whose productivity is Markov.

repressilator

  • Boolean repressilator boolean_repressilator: The Boolean repressilator, where LacI represses TetR, TetR represses cI, and cI represses LacI.

reservoir computing

  • Echo state network echo_state_network: An echo state network, a reservoir of leaky tanh units with random recurrent weights driven by a sine.
  • Next-generation reservoir computer next_generation_reservoir: A next-generation reservoir computer whose variables follow the ridge readout of their monomials.

resistance

resonance

  • Forced Toda oscillator forced_toda: The forced Toda oscillator x'' + d x' + e^x - 1 = a sin(omega t), a passive asymmetric oscillator.
  • Stochastic resonance stochastic_resonance: A particle in a double well, dx = (x - x^3 + A cos(2 pi f t)) dt + sqrt(2 D) dW.

resource allocation

  • Kolkata Paise Restaurant kolkata_restaurant: The Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem, where diners spread over restaurants that serve one meal each.

retail

reversals

  • Gissinger geodynamo geodynamo: Gissinger's geodynamo, whose dipole field reverses at irregular times.

reverse bifurcations

reversible

  • HPP lattice gas hpp_lattice_gas: The HPP lattice gas on a periodic square lattice, whose particles move along four directions and collide.
  • Q2R reversible Ising automaton q2r: The Q2R automaton, a reversible, energy-conserving Ising dynamics on a periodic lattice of even sides.

rewiring

  • Adaptive SIS with rewiring adaptive_sis: The SIS epidemic on a network whose susceptible nodes cut their edges to infected neighbours.
  • Coevolving voter coevolving_voter: The coevolving voter system, which fragments into consensual components when rewiring is fast.

rewriting system

  • Cantor cantor_set: The Cantor set as the substitution of every interval by its two outer parts.
  • Koch koch_curve: The Koch curve as the L-system F → F+F--F+F drawn by a turtle.
  • Morse subshift morse_subshift: The Thue-Morse substitution 0 → 01, 1 → 10, whose words make the language of the Morse subshift.
  • Sierpiński substitutions sierpinski_substitution: The Sierpiński triangle or carpet as the substitution of a polygon by scaled copies of itself.

riccati

  • Riccati price adjustment riccati_prices: A price that moves with excess demand under linear demand and saturating quadratic supply.

ridesharing

  • Ridesharing ridesharing: Riders who request trips on a city grid and cabs that a stable matching sends to them.

ring

rna

robot

robotics

  • Light-emitting robots with sensory delay light_emitting_robots: Light-emitting robots, which cluster when they sense the light of the others late and spread when early.
  • Light-sensitive robots with sensory delay light_seeking_robots: Light-sensitive robots in a circular well, whose sensory delay decides whether they gather in the light.
  • Swarmtaxis swarmtaxis: The swarmtaxis algorithm, which moves a swarm of robots towards a beacon that only some of them see.

robustness

rolls

  • Swift-Hohenberg swift_hohenberg: The Swift-Hohenberg equation u_t = r u - (1 + laplacian)^2 u - u^3, which forms rolls of length 2 pi.

rotating frame

  • Restricted three-body problem restricted_three_body: A light body moving in the plane of two primaries on circular orbits, in the frame that rotates with them.

rotation

  • Gyroscope in a gimbal gimballed_gyroscope: A gyroscope in a gimbal: a rotor in an inner ring that turns in an outer ring about a fixed axis.
  • Rotating balls on rods rotating_balls_on_rods: Two balls on rods that turn about a vertical axis and conserve their angular momentum.
  • Rotating swing rotating_swing: A rotating swing: chairs on chains hanging from the rods of a stand that turns about a vertical axis.

rotational diffusion

rouse chain

  • Active polymers active_polymer: An active polymer, a Rouse chain of active Brownian beads that each swim along their own orientation.

ruggedness

  • NK fitness landscapes nk_landscape: Agents that climb Kauffman's NK fitness landscape from random genomes until they reach local peaks.

rumours

  • Maki-Thompson rumours maki_thompson: The Maki-Thompson rumour system started by one spreader, which leaves about 20% of people ignorant.

sample space reduction

  • Cascading sample-space-reducing process cascading_sample_space_reducing: Cascading sample-space-reducing processes, whose visits follow the power law i^(-mu) for any mu.
  • Fragmentation fragmentation: The random fragmentation of an object of integer size, whose fragments keep breaking into smaller ones.
  • Sample-space-reducing process sample_space_reducing: Sample-space-reducing processes, whose state visits follow Zipf's law 1 / i for lam = 1.

sandpile

  • Fixed-energy sandpile fixed_energy_sandpile: The fixed-energy sandpile, a Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld pile with no drive and no loss on a periodic lattice.
  • Zhang sandpile zhang_sandpile: The Zhang sandpile, a continuous sandpile whose unstable sites give away all their energy.

satisfiability

scale-free

scales

schooling

sde

second order

  • Bending of light by a mass light_bending: A light ray that passes a static mass and is deflected towards it.
  • Coupled pendulums coupled_pendulums: Two pendulums whose bobs are joined by a spring, which pass their energy back and forth.
  • Double pendulum double_pendulum: A double pendulum, a pendulum hanging from the bob of another, written as its two Lagrange equations.
  • Driven damped oscillator driven_damped_oscillator: A mass on a spring with damping and a periodic force, m x'' = -k x - c x' + F cos(ω t).
  • Duffing duffing: The forced Duffing oscillator x'' = -delta x' - alpha x - beta x^3 + gamma cos(omega t), chaotic here.
  • FLRW cosmology from the Einstein equations flrw_cosmology: A homogeneous universe whose expansion follows from the Einstein equations of the Robertson-Walker metric.
  • Fibonacci rabbits fibonacci_rabbits: Fibonacci's rabbits, N_{t+1} = N_t + N_{t-1}, where every pair older than one month breeds a new pair.
  • Forced Toda oscillator forced_toda: The forced Toda oscillator x'' + d x' + e^x - 1 = a sin(omega t), a passive asymmetric oscillator.
  • Forced Van der Pol forced_van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillator driven by a periodic force, x'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x + A cos(ω t).
  • Frame dragging around a spinning mass kerr_frame_dragging: A particle without angular momentum that falls into a spinning mass and is dragged around it.
  • Friedmann expansion friedmann_expansion: The scale factor of a homogeneous universe of matter and dark energy, after Friedmann and Lemaître.
  • Gyroscope in a gimbal gimballed_gyroscope: A gyroscope in a gimbal: a rotor in an inner ring that turns in an outer ring about a fixed axis.
  • Huygens clocks and pendulums on coupled supports huygens_clocks: Pendulum clocks on supports joined by springs, which synchronize through the motion of the supports.
  • Inertial active Brownian particles inertial_active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles with inertia, which lag behind their orientation as they speed up and turn.
  • Keplerian dumbbell and spin-orbit coupling keplerian_dumbbell: The Keplerian dumbbell: two masses on a rigid massless arm that orbit a primary under gravity.
  • Multiplier-accelerator multiplier_accelerator: Samuelson's multiplier-accelerator, Y_{t+1} = c (1 + v) Y_t - c v Y_{t-1} + G.
  • Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse of a dust ball oppenheimer_snyder_collapse: A ball of dust at rest that collapses under its own gravity into a black hole, as Oppenheimer and Snyder.
  • Pendulum pendulum: A pendulum, whose angle follows Newton's second law m l θ'' = -m g sin θ.
  • Pendulum on a sliding cart cart_pendulum: A pendulum hanging from a cart that slides without friction along a horizontal track.
  • Pendulum with a vertically or horizontally oscillating pivot parametric_pendulum: A pendulum whose suspension point oscillates vertically or horizontally, with acceleration ε g cos Ω t.
  • Perihelion precession in the Schwarzschild spacetime schwarzschild_precession: A massive particle on a bound orbit around a static mass, whose perihelion advances every turn.
  • Quarter-car suspension quarter_car: A quarter-car suspension driving over a road step.
  • RLC circuit rlc_circuit: A series RLC circuit written as Kirchhoff's voltage law, L q'' + R q' + q / C = V cos(ω t).
  • Relativistic orbit equation relativistic_orbit: Einstein's orbit equation u'' + u = alpha + epsilon u² of a planet, whose perihelion precesses.
  • Rotating swing rotating_swing: A rotating swing: chairs on chains hanging from the rods of a stand that turns about a vertical axis.
  • Sitnikov problem sitnikov: A light body moving on the axis through the centre of mass of two equal primaries, normal to their orbit.
  • Strongly nonlinear oscillator under periodic impulses impulsive_oscillator: An oscillator kicked by a periodic train of impulses of alternating sign.
  • Störmer charge in a dipole field stormer_problem: A charged particle moving in the magnetic dipole field of a planet, the Störmer problem.
  • Van der Pol van_der_pol: The Van der Pol oscillator x'' = μ (1 - x²) x' - x, which settles on a limit cycle for μ > 0.

security

  • Criminality and security criminality: The kinetic system of criminality in a society and the security forces that act against it.

segmentation

  • LEGION oscillators legion: A LEGION network, a lattice of relaxation oscillators that segments a stimulus into its objects.

segregation

  • Schelling schelling: A Schelling segregation system on a grid with at most one resident per cell.
  • Stochastic Schelling stochastic_schelling: The stochastic Schelling system of agents moving between blocks, which segregates above beta = 2.

seir

selection

self-organization

self-organized criticality

self-propulsion

  • Active Brownian particles active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles in the plane, which swim at a constant speed in a diffusing direction.
  • Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles active_ornstein_uhlenbeck_particles: Active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles in the plane, driven by exponentially correlated propulsion.
  • Active polymers active_polymer: An active polymer, a Rouse chain of active Brownian beads that each swim along their own orientation.
  • Bird swarm with pair potentials bird_swarm: A swarm of self-propelled birds held together by a pair potential that attracts far and repels near.
  • Chiral active particles chiral_active_particles: Chiral active particles, which swim along circles of radius v / omega that drift by diffusion.
  • Depot-pumped Brownian particles depot_brownian_particles: Brownian particles with energy depots, which start at rest and take up the speed sqrt(q/gamma - c/d).
  • Inertial active Brownian particles inertial_active_brownian_particles: Active Brownian particles with inertia, which lag behind their orientation as they speed up and turn.
  • Run-and-tumble run_and_tumble: Run-and-tumble agents in a periodic square, which diffuse with v^2 (1 + q) / (4 (1 - q)) per step.

self-replication

  • Gray-Scott gray_scott: The Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion system, seeded in its middle, which grows spots that replicate.

self-similar group

  • Adding machine (odometer) adding_machine: The adding machine r → r + 1 on the q-adic integers, the odometer acting on the q-ary tree.

sentiment

separation

  • Cascade classifier cascade_classifier: A cascade classifier, a column of stages that separates a narrow size class of particles by an air flow.

sepsis

set point

shepherding

shocks

  • BGK bgk_equation: The BGK equation of the Sod shock tube over one position and one velocity axis.
  • Burgers burgers: The inviscid Burgers equation on a periodic interval of length 2 pi, whose sine steepens into a shock.
  • Lighthill-Whitham-Richards lighthill_whitham_richards: The Lighthill-Whitham-Richards system, the conservation of cars with the Greenshields speed law.
  • Shallow-water dam break shallow_water: The shallow-water dam break: still water at two depths that a removed dam separated at the middle.

shortest path

sigmoid

signalling

simplex

simplicial complex

singular arc

  • Optimal harvesting optimal_harvesting: A logistic resource harvested with the effort that maximises its discounted profit.

singularity

  • Finite-time blow-up finite_time_blow_up: Hyperbolic growth x' = a x^p, which diverges at the finite time x0^(1 - p) / (a (p - 1)) for p > 1.

sir

  • SIR with optimal vaccination sir_vaccination: An SIR epidemic with the vaccination rate that minimises the burden of infections and vaccines.

sis

size structure

slow manifold

slow-fast

small world

snowball

social dilemmas

social dynamics

social influence

socio-ecological

  • Harvesting farmers harvesting: A socio-ecological system of farmer agents harvesting a logistically regrowing resource.

sofic

  • Even and S-gap subshifts gap_subshift: The shift on the S-gap subshift, the binary sequences whose runs of zeros between ones lie in S.

soliton

solvable

  • Baumslag-Solitar groups baumslag_solitar_automaton: The majority automaton on a ball of the Baumslag-Solitar group BS(m, n), of exponential growth.

spatial network

spatiotemporal chaos

spde

speciation

species abundance

  • Neutral Moran system with speciation neutral_biodiversity: A neutral community of constant size, where species arise by speciation and vanish by drift.
  • Neutral macroecology neutral_macroecology: Many species under neutral birth, death, and immigration, whose abundances follow a gamma-like law.

spectral

spectral radius

  • Quenched mean-field SIS quenched_mean_field_sis: The SIS epidemic on a fixed network in quenched mean field, one infection probability per node.

spiking

  • Hodgkin-Huxley hodgkin_huxley: The Hodgkin-Huxley neuron, whose sodium and potassium channels produce action potentials.
  • Integrate-and-fire integrate_and_fire: The leaky integrate-and-fire neuron, tau v' = -(v - rest) + R I, which spikes and resets at a threshold.
  • Izhikevich izhikevich: The Izhikevich neuron, whose four parameters give regular spiking, bursting, chattering, and more.
  • Networks of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons with delays delayed_lif_network: A random network of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons whose spikes reach their targets after a delay.

spin glass

spin-orbit coupling

spins

  • Edwards-Anderson spin glass edwards_anderson: The Edwards-Anderson spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with quenched random bonds.
  • Fully connected Ising system with Glauber dynamics curie_weiss: The fully connected Ising system with Glauber dynamics, ordered below the critical temperature T_c = J.
  • Ising ising: The two-dimensional Ising system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature 2 / ln(1 + sqrt 2).
  • Ising on a graph graph_ising: The Ising system on a graph, ordered below a critical temperature set by the degrees of the nodes.
  • Join-a-club spins join_a_club: Join-a-club spins, agents who join a club with their acquaintances while acquaintances follow the club.
  • Mattis spin glass mattis_spin_glass: The Mattis spin glass on a periodic square lattice, with couplings J_ij = J xi_i xi_j of a pattern xi.
  • Potts potts: The q-state Potts system on a torus, ordered below the critical temperature 1 / ln(1 + sqrt q).
  • Q2R reversible Ising automaton q2r: The Q2R automaton, a reversible, energy-conserving Ising dynamics on a periodic lattice of even sides.
  • Quantum Heisenberg system quantum_heisenberg: A chain of spins one half with the XXZ Hamiltonian, a field, and optional dephasing.
  • Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass sherrington_kirkpatrick: The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass with Glauber dynamics, frozen below the temperature T_c = J.
  • XY xy: The XY system of planar spins on a torus, with vortices that bind below the Kosterlitz-Thouless point.

spirals

  • Aliev-Panfilov cardiac tissue aliev_panfilov: The Aliev-Panfilov system of cardiac tissue, started from a broken wave that curls into a spiral.
  • Barkley excitable medium with spirals and breakup barkley: Barkley's excitable medium, started from orthogonal stripes whose crossing curls into a spiral wave.
  • Complex Ginzburg-Landau complex_ginzburg_landau: The complex Ginzburg-Landau equation A_t = A + (1 + i b) laplacian(A) - (1 + i c) |A|^2 A.
  • Cyclic cellular automaton cyclic_cellular_automaton: Griffeath's cyclic cellular automaton, whose random levels organize into spiral waves.
  • FitzHugh-Nagumo spirals fitzhugh_nagumo: The FitzHugh-Nagumo excitable medium, started from a broken wave that curls into a spiral.
  • Hodgepodge machine hodgepodge: The hodgepodge machine, a system of a chemical reaction whose waves form spirals.
  • Rock-paper-scissors rock_paper_scissors: Rock, paper, and scissors on a lattice, whose cyclic invasions keep the three strategies coexisting.

springs

spurious drift

  • Multiplicative noise conventions multiplicative_noise: Free particles in a box with position-dependent noise, read in the Itô, Stratonovich, or anti-Itô sense.

squirmers

  • Squirmers squirmers: Spherical squirmers that swim at 2 B1 / 3 and stir each other as pushers or pullers.

stability

stable intermediate forms

  • Hora and Tempus watchmakers watchmakers: Simon's fable of the watchmakers Hora and Tempus, told by Meadows, with and without stable subassemblies.

standardization

static

stationary distribution

stdp

stem cells

stick-slip

stiff

  • Kuramoto-Sivashinsky kuramoto_sivashinsky: The Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation u_t = -u u_x - u_xx - u_xxxx, spatiotemporally chaotic.
  • Oregonator oregonator: The scaled Oregonator, the reduction of the FKN mechanism of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction.

stigmergy

  • Ant colony optimization on a road network ant_colony_optimization: Ants that find the shortest path between two points of a Delaunay road network, round after round.
  • Binary ant decision binary_ant_decision: Ants that choose between two equal branches to a food source, following the marks of earlier ants.
  • Pheromone foraging pheromone_foraging: Ants that find food and lay a pheromone trail home, which other ants follow: stigmergy.
  • Stigmergic predator-prey automaton stigmergic_predator_prey: Plants, prey, and predators on a grid, whose animals share emotions through decaying marks.

stochastic

  • Adleman DNA computation of a Hamiltonian path dna_computation: Adleman's DNA computation of a Hamiltonian path, by random ligation of edge oligos in a test tube.
  • Bak-Sneppen bak_sneppen: The Bak-Sneppen system, whose fitnesses self-organise above a critical value in avalanches of extinction.
  • Charbonneau traffic charbonneau_traffic: Charbonneau's traffic system, where random braking of single drivers sets off traffic jams.
  • Contact process contact_process: The contact process on a periodic lattice, which survives above a critical infection rate near 1.65.
  • Drossel-Schwabl forest fire forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire, where slow growth and rare lightning give fires of every size.
  • FHP lattice gas fhp_lattice_gas: The FHP-I lattice gas on a periodic triangular lattice, with a dense disc that spreads into the gas.
  • Forest fire on hexagonal lattices and graphs hexagonal_forest_fire: The Drossel-Schwabl forest fire on a triangular lattice of hexagonal cells, or on the nodes of a graph.
  • Intrinsic-instability populations intrinsic_instability: Jensen's coupled populations, whose steady state becomes unstable without a change of the surroundings.
  • Kinouchi-Copelli excitable network kinouchi_copelli: The Kinouchi-Copelli network of excitable elements, whose dynamic range peaks at the critical point.
  • Maki-Thompson rumours maki_thompson: The Maki-Thompson rumour system started by one spreader, which leaves about 20% of people ignorant.
  • Manna sandpile manna_sandpile: The Manna sandpile, a stochastic sandpile of another universality class than Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld.
  • Nagel-Schreckenberg nagel_schreckenberg: The Nagel-Schreckenberg traffic system on a ring road, where jams emerge above a critical density.
  • Noisy automata noisy_automata: An elementary cellular automaton whose outputs are flipped at random with a small probability.
  • Probabilistic Boolean network probabilistic_boolean_network: A probabilistic Boolean network, whose nodes draw one of their candidate functions at every step.
  • Ring-road driver agents ring_road_drivers: Drivers on a circular highway, where small random errors of speed set off traffic jams.
  • Rock-paper-scissors rock_paper_scissors: Rock, paper, and scissors on a lattice, whose cyclic invasions keep the three strategies coexisting.
  • Self-organized branching process self_organized_branching: The self-organized branching process of Zapperi, Lauritsen, and Stanley, a mean-field sandpile.
  • Stochastic Schelling stochastic_schelling: The stochastic Schelling system of agents moving between blocks, which segregates above beta = 2.
  • TASEP tasep: The totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with parallel update, on an open line or a ring.

stochastic climate

stochastic escape

stochastic map

stochastic simulation

stock market

stock-flow consistent

stocks and flows

  • Bass diffusion bass_diffusion: The Bass diffusion system, people who adopt a new product through advertising and word of mouth.
  • Bathtub bathtub: A bathtub, one stock of water with an inflow from the faucet and an outflow through the drain.
  • Beer distribution game beer_game: Sterman's beer distribution game, a supply chain whose orders swing wider at every echelon upstream.
  • Car-dealer inventory with delays car_dealer: Meadows' car dealership, whose inventory oscillates after a step in demand because of its delays.
  • Cascade classifier cascade_classifier: A cascade classifier, a column of stages that separates a narrow size class of particles by an air flow.
  • Cocoa cocoa: A cocoa production system, plantations that boom with their profit and bust with the insects they invite.
  • Commodity cycle with capacity delay commodity_cycle: A commodity market whose price and capacity cycle because new capacity arrives after a delay.
  • Cooling coffee cooling_coffee: A cup of coffee whose temperature relaxes to that of the room, T' = -k (T - T_room).
  • Crop livestock household crop_livestock_household: Bala's crop livestock model, a farming household that adds livestock rearing to its crop income.
  • Declining energy return on investment energy_return: The extraction of a finite energy reserve whose energy return on investment declines as it depletes.
  • Drift to low performance drift_to_low_performance: Meadows' drift to low performance trap, eroding goals that follow a pessimistic view of the performance.
  • Escalation escalation: Meadows' escalation trap, two parties that each want to exceed the other's stock by a margin.
  • Food relief system food_relief: A food relief system, a pipeline that ships food to a warehouse and distributes it to people in need.
  • Food security systems food_security: A food security system, the rice self-sufficiency of a country under subsidy, research, and extension.
  • Grain storage system grain_storage: A retail grain store, whose orders through a supply line make its stock oscillate.
  • Hilsa fishery hilsa_fishery: A hilsa fishery, the life cycle of a migratory fish that the catch of juveniles and spawners depletes.
  • Irrigation system irrigation: An irrigation system, a reservoir and an aquifer that keep the root zone of the crops supplied.
  • Mean-field flows of undecided agents undecided_flows: The mean-field flows between agents against, A, undecided, C, and for, B.
  • Penaeid shrimp growth penaeid_shrimp: The growth of one penaeid shrimp from the juvenile stage, forced by the food and the water temperature.
  • Policy resistance policy_resistance: Meadows' policy resistance trap, one stock pulled by three actors toward inconsistent goals.
  • Population and pollution population_pollution: The pollution model of Bala, Arshad, and Noh, a population that degrades its environment.
  • Rice land, population, and food security rice_food_balance: Bala's food security model, rice land that grows towards the land available against a growing population.
  • Rice milling system rice_milling: A rice milling system, a mill that buys paddy, mills it into rice and by-products, and sells them.
  • Shifting the burden shifting_the_burden: Meadows' shifting the burden trap, a quick fix that relieves a symptom and erodes the system's capability.
  • Solid waste system solid_waste: A solid waste system, the waste of a growing city collected, recycled, composted, and landfilled.
  • Stimulus-response, adaptive response, and anticipation with response, restore, repair, and preparedness costs adaptive_response_costs: A system that meets recurring demands by stimulus-response, adaptive response, or anticipation.
  • Stock-flow consistent monetary economy stock_flow_consistent_economy: A stock-flow consistent economy, a closed circuit of money between households, firms, and a bank.
  • Success to the successful success_to_the_successful: Meadows' success to the successful trap, two competitors that share a budget by their past success.
  • Thermostat thermostat: A room heated by a furnace under a thermostat while heat leaks to the outside.

stokes flow

  • Active nematic and polar gels active_gels: An active gel, a nematic tensor or a polarisation transported in the Stokes flow of its own stresses.
  • Squirmers squirmers: Spherical squirmers that swim at 2 B1 / 3 and stir each other as pushers or pullers.

stop-and-go

  • GKT non-local traffic gkt_traffic: The gas-kinetic-based traffic system, where drivers brake on the traffic at an interaction point ahead.

storage

  • Grain storage system grain_storage: A retail grain store, whose orders through a supply line make its stock oscillate.

strange attractor

  • Fractional Lorenz fractional_lorenz: The fractional Lorenz flow of Grigorenko and Grigorenko, chaotic for orders close enough to 1.
  • Hyperchaotic four-dimensional Rössler flow hyperchaotic_rossler: Rössler's four-dimensional flow, hyperchaotic with two positive Lyapunov exponents for its defaults.
  • Hénon map henon_map: The Hénon map x' = 1 - a x² + y, y' = b x, with a fractal strange attractor for its defaults.
  • Langford attractor langford: The Langford flow, a rotation whose torus breaks into a strange attractor for the defaults of Dilão.
  • Lorenz lorenz: The Lorenz-63 system of convection, chaotic on a butterfly-shaped attractor for its standard parameters.
  • Lozi map lozi_map: The Lozi map x' = 1 + y - a |x|, y' = b x, the piecewise linear Hénon map with a strange attractor.
  • Rössler rossler: The Rössler system, a chaotic flow with one folded band for its standard parameters.
  • Sprott flow with a conservative torus and a chaotic attractor sprott_mixed_flow: Sprott's flow with a conservative torus and a dissipative chaotic attractor side by side.
  • Thomas cyclically symmetric attractor thomas: The Thomas flow x' = -a x + sin y with its cyclic permutations, chaotic for a = 0.18.

strong selection weak mutation

structures

subdiffusion

subshift

  • Context-free subshift context_free_subshift: A Markov chain on the context-free subshift, ternary rings where every block 0 1^h 2^k 0 has h = k.
  • Even and S-gap subshifts gap_subshift: The shift on the S-gap subshift, the binary sequences whose runs of zeros between ones lie in S.
  • Morse subshift morse_subshift: The Thue-Morse substitution 0 → 01, 1 → 10, whose words make the language of the Morse subshift.
  • Subshifts subshifts: A Markov chain on the golden mean shift, the configurations of a ring that never hold two adjacent ones.

substitution

  • Cantor cantor_set: The Cantor set as the substitution of every interval by its two outer parts.
  • Morse subshift morse_subshift: The Thue-Morse substitution 0 → 01, 1 → 10, whose words make the language of the Morse subshift.
  • Sierpiński substitutions sierpinski_substitution: The Sierpiński triangle or carpet as the substitution of a polygon by scaled copies of itself.

succession

  • Mangrove succession mangrove_succession: The regrowth of a mangrove forest of the Sundarbans after a clear cut, from pioneers to climax trees.

sugarscape

  • Sugarscape sugarscape: The Sugarscape of Epstein and Axtell, foragers of random vision and metabolism on two sugar peaks.

superdiffusion

  • Lévy walk levy_walk: The Lévy walk, flights at constant speed in random directions for times with the tail tau^(-1 - sigma).
  • Superdiffusive Levy flight levy_flight: The Lévy flight, a walk whose jumps have lengths with the tail l^(-1 - mu) in random directions.

superposition

superstatistics

supply chain

  • Beer distribution game beer_game: Sterman's beer distribution game, a supply chain whose orders swing wider at every echelon upstream.
  • Fair Food Program fair_food_program: Chesney's Fair Food Program, in which pressure on tomato buyers draws farms into fair wages.
  • Food relief system food_relief: A food relief system, a pipeline that ships food to a warehouse and distributes it to people in need.

supply chains

surface tension

surjective

surrogate

suspension

swarm control

swarmalators

  • Swarmalators swarmalators: Swarmalators, identical oscillators whose phases set their attraction and whose positions their coupling.

swarming

  • Swarmalators swarmalators: Swarmalators, identical oscillators whose phases set their attraction and whose positions their coupling.

swarms

  • Bird swarm with pair potentials bird_swarm: A swarm of self-propelled birds held together by a pair potential that attracts far and repels near.
  • Light-emitting robots with sensory delay light_emitting_robots: Light-emitting robots, which cluster when they sense the light of the others late and spread when early.
  • Swarmtaxis swarmtaxis: The swarmtaxis algorithm, which moves a swarm of robots towards a beacon that only some of them see.

symmetric group

symmetry breaking

synapse

  • Adaptrode synapse adaptrode: An Adaptrode synapse driven by a train of input pulses that stops after a while.

synchronization

synchronous

  • Hegselmann-Krause hegselmann_krause: The Hegselmann-Krause system, whose opinions freeze within a few steps into clusters about 2 ε apart.

synthetic biology

  • Genetic toggle switch toggle_switch: The genetic toggle switch of Gardner, Cantor, and Collins, two genes that repress each other.
  • Repressilator repressilator: The repressilator of Elowitz and Leibler, three genes in a ring that each repress the next.

system a

system b

system dynamics

  • Bass diffusion bass_diffusion: The Bass diffusion system, people who adopt a new product through advertising and word of mouth.
  • Bathtub bathtub: A bathtub, one stock of water with an inflow from the faucet and an outflow through the drain.
  • Beer distribution game beer_game: Sterman's beer distribution game, a supply chain whose orders swing wider at every echelon upstream.
  • Capital stock capital_stock: Meadows' capital stock, grown by reinvested output and drained by depreciation.
  • Car-dealer inventory with delays car_dealer: Meadows' car dealership, whose inventory oscillates after a step in demand because of its delays.
  • Cocoa cocoa: A cocoa production system, plantations that boom with their profit and bust with the insects they invite.
  • Commodity cycle with capacity delay commodity_cycle: A commodity market whose price and capacity cycle because new capacity arrives after a delay.
  • Crop livestock household crop_livestock_household: Bala's crop livestock model, a farming household that adds livestock rearing to its crop income.
  • Declining energy return on investment energy_return: The extraction of a finite energy reserve whose energy return on investment declines as it depletes.
  • Drift to low performance drift_to_low_performance: Meadows' drift to low performance trap, eroding goals that follow a pessimistic view of the performance.
  • Escalation escalation: Meadows' escalation trap, two parties that each want to exceed the other's stock by a margin.
  • Food relief system food_relief: A food relief system, a pipeline that ships food to a warehouse and distributes it to people in need.
  • Food security systems food_security: A food security system, the rice self-sufficiency of a country under subsidy, research, and extension.
  • Grain storage system grain_storage: A retail grain store, whose orders through a supply line make its stock oscillate.
  • Hilsa fishery hilsa_fishery: A hilsa fishery, the life cycle of a migratory fish that the catch of juveniles and spawners depletes.
  • Irrigation system irrigation: An irrigation system, a reservoir and an aquifer that keep the root zone of the crops supplied.
  • Mangrove succession mangrove_succession: The regrowth of a mangrove forest of the Sundarbans after a clear cut, from pioneers to climax trees.
  • Oil economy oil_economy: Meadows' oil economy, capital that grows on a nonrenewable resource and collapses as it runs out.
  • Policy resistance policy_resistance: Meadows' policy resistance trap, one stock pulled by three actors toward inconsistent goals.
  • Population and pollution population_pollution: The pollution model of Bala, Arshad, and Noh, a population that degrades its environment.
  • Renewable fishery with capital fishery_capital: Meadows' fishing fleet, capital that grows on a renewable resource and can overshoot it.
  • Rice land, population, and food security rice_food_balance: Bala's food security model, rice land that grows towards the land available against a growing population.
  • Rice milling system rice_milling: A rice milling system, a mill that buys paddy, mills it into rice and by-products, and sells them.
  • Shifting the burden shifting_the_burden: Meadows' shifting the burden trap, a quick fix that relieves a symptom and erodes the system's capability.
  • Solid waste system solid_waste: A solid waste system, the waste of a growing city collected, recycled, composted, and landfilled.
  • Success to the successful success_to_the_successful: Meadows' success to the successful trap, two competitors that share a budget by their past success.

system traps

  • Drift to low performance drift_to_low_performance: Meadows' drift to low performance trap, eroding goals that follow a pessimistic view of the performance.
  • Escalation escalation: Meadows' escalation trap, two parties that each want to exceed the other's stock by a margin.
  • Policy resistance policy_resistance: Meadows' policy resistance trap, one stock pulled by three actors toward inconsistent goals.
  • Shifting the burden shifting_the_burden: Meadows' shifting the burden trap, a quick fix that relieves a symptom and erodes the system's capability.
  • Success to the successful success_to_the_successful: Meadows' success to the successful trap, two competitors that share a budget by their past success.

systemic risk

takeover

  • Employment takeover employment_takeover: The employment takeover system on a periodic checkerboard, with half of each kind coloured at random.

targeted therapy

taxis

  • Swarmtaxis swarmtaxis: The swarmtaxis algorithm, which moves a swarm of robots towards a beacon that only some of them see.

technology

  • Arthur-Polak technology evolution arthur_polak: Arthur and Polak's evolution of technology, which builds logic functions from NAND gates.
  • NK technology system nk_technology: McNerney's system of technological improvement, whose cost falls as a power of the cumulative production.

temporal network

tensor

thermal

thermohaline circulation

thermostat

  • Nosé-Hoover oscillator nose_hoover: The Nosé-Hoover oscillator x' = y, y' = y z - x, z' = 1 - y², with tori next to a chaotic sea.

theta neurons

theta-gamma

third order

  • Sprott jerk sprott_jerk: Sprott's jerk equation x''' = -A x'' - x' + |x| - 1, chaotic near A = 0.6.

thomas

three dimensions

threshold

tipping

tipping point

  • Fair Food Program fair_food_program: Chesney's Fair Food Program, in which pressure on tomato buyers draws farms into fair wages.
  • Intrinsic-instability populations intrinsic_instability: Jensen's coupled populations, whose steady state becomes unstable without a change of the surroundings.

tipping points

tissue

torus

toxicity

trade

traffic

  • Asymmetric exclusion process with open boundaries asep: The asymmetric simple exclusion process on an open line, in continuous time.
  • Car following with delay delayed_car_following: A chain of cars that react to the speed difference to the car ahead after a reaction time.
  • Charbonneau traffic charbonneau_traffic: Charbonneau's traffic system, where random braking of single drivers sets off traffic jams.
  • GKT non-local traffic gkt_traffic: The gas-kinetic-based traffic system, where drivers brake on the traffic at an interaction point ahead.
  • Intelligent driver system intelligent_driver_system: The intelligent driver system of cars on a ring road.
  • Kerner-Konhäuser system kerner_konhauser: The Kerner-Konhäuser system, where viscous traffic flow forms dense moving clusters.
  • Langevin car-following toward a density-dependent speed langevin_traffic: Cars on a ring road whose speeds relax with noise towards a desired speed set by the local density.
  • Lighthill-Whitham-Richards lighthill_whitham_richards: The Lighthill-Whitham-Richards system, the conservation of cars with the Greenshields speed law.
  • Moment equations of Langevin traffic with a jam instability traffic_density_equation: The density and flux equations of Langevin traffic on a ring road, whose uniform flow breaks into jams.
  • Nagel-Schreckenberg nagel_schreckenberg: The Nagel-Schreckenberg traffic system on a ring road, where jams emerge above a critical density.
  • Optimal velocity optimal_velocity: The optimal velocity system of cars on a ring road, where uniform flow breaks into stop-and-go waves.
  • Payne system payne: The Payne system, where the speed of traffic relaxes to the Greenshields speed and anticipates density.
  • Ring-road driver agents ring_road_drivers: Drivers on a circular highway, where small random errors of speed set off traffic jams.
  • TASEP tasep: The totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with parallel update, on an open line or a ring.

trafficking

  • Brothel movement system trafficking: The brothel movement system, where victims moved between brothels leave traces in bills and train trips.

trail formation

transient attractors

transport

trap system

  • Bouchaud trap system trap_system: The Bouchaud trap system, walkers that escape from traps of exponentially distributed depths.

traps

traveling waves

tree

tree automorphism

  • Adding machine (odometer) adding_machine: The adding machine r → r + 1 on the q-adic integers, the odometer acting on the q-ary tree.

triad formation

  • Holme-Kim growth holme_kim: Holme-Kim growth, scale-free like Barabási-Albert growth but with clustering that stays high.

triadic closure

triadic interactions

  • Spatial triadic percolation on a torus spatial_triadic_percolation: Spatial triadic percolation, where nearby signed regulators make the giant component form moving patterns.
  • Triadic percolation triadic_percolation: Triadic percolation, where regulating nodes switch links on and off from the giant component.

tumour

  • Immune competition immune_competition: The kinetic system of the competition between tumour cells and immune cells.

tumour growth

tumour-immune

turbulence

  • Decaying turbulence decaying_turbulence: Decaying two-dimensional turbulence from a random vorticity field on a periodic square of side 2 pi.

turing machine

turtle

  • Koch koch_curve: The Koch curve as the L-system F → F+F--F+F drawn by a turtle.

two-level replicator

two-phase flow

  • Two-phase zone exchange two_phase_zone_exchange: Independent zones of a two-phase apparatus, each exchanging particles with the rest of the apparatus.

undecided

unemployment

unstable equilibrium

urban

  • Solid waste system solid_waste: A solid waste system, the waste of a growing city collected, recycled, composted, and landfilled.

urban scaling

urn

  • Interacting urns with triggering on a network interacting_urns_network: One urn with triggering per node of a network, which draws from its own urn and those of its neighbours.
  • Pólya urn polya_urn: Independent Pólya urns, whose share of red balls converges to a random limit with a beta distribution.

vaccination

  • SIR with optimal vaccination sir_vaccination: An SIR epidemic with the vaccination rate that minimises the burden of infections and vaccines.

vaccine

vasculature

vegetation

  • Daisyworld daisyworld: Daisyworld, where white and black daisies regulate the temperature of their planet through its albedo.
  • Forest dieback forest_dieback: The forest dieback model of the Amazon, whose cover tips to bare soil when the ambient temperature rises.
  • Forest dieback with replicator dynamics of mitigators social_forest_dieback: The forest dieback model coupled with the replicator dynamics of mitigators who perceive its warming.

vehicles

  • Regenerative braking regenerative_braking: A car braked by a Faraday disk generator on its wheel, which charges a supercapacitor.
  • Vibration energy harvester vibration_energy_harvester: A dual-mass piezoelectric harvester in a car suspension, driven by the roughness of the road.

vibration

  • Electromagnetic vibrating table vibrating_table: An electromagnetic vibrating table, a shaker driven by a sinusoidal supply after its switch closes.
  • Vibration energy harvester vibration_energy_harvester: A dual-mass piezoelectric harvester in a car suspension, driven by the roughness of the road.
  • Wheel and rail contact wheel_rail_contact: A rail segment on a sleeper, loaded by the wheels of passing bogies.

vicsek

  • Nonreciprocal Vicsek system nonreciprocal_vicsek: Two species of Vicsek movers in a periodic box whose alignment with each other is nonreciprocal.

virotherapy

viscoelastic

vortices

  • XY xy: The XY system of planar spins on a torus, with vortices that bind below the Kosterlitz-Thouless point.

voter

  • Coevolving voter coevolving_voter: The coevolving voter system, which fragments into consensual components when rewiring is fast.

voting

  • Majority rule automaton majority_rule: Voters that take the majority opinion of their neighbourhood, which coarsens into domains.
  • Voter variants voter_variants: Voter system variants on a network, with threshold voters and a share of contrarians.

wages

  • Ajani's Choice ajanis_choice: Chesney's Ajani's Choice, migrant farm workers and employers among whom underpayment emerges.

waiting times

  • Poisson process poisson_process: Independent Poisson processes, counters that grow by one at exponentially distributed waiting times.

waning immunity

  • SIRS sirs: An epidemic whose immunity wanes, which returns in damped waves to an endemic equilibrium.

waste management

  • Solid waste system solid_waste: A solid waste system, the waste of a growing city collected, recycled, composted, and landfilled.

water resources

  • Irrigation system irrigation: An irrigation system, a reservoir and an aquifer that keep the root zone of the crops supplied.

wave packet

waves

wealth

welfare

western boundary current

winner-take-all

winners-take-all

working memory

  • Amari neural field amari_neural_field: The Amari neural field, whose lateral inhibition holds a stationary bump of activity.

yang-mills

zealots

zero intelligence

zero-range process

  • Dissipative zero-range process on a tree dissipative_zero_range: The dissipative zero-range process on a tree, with energy injected at the root and lost at the leaves.
  • Zero-range process zero_range_process: The zero-range process on a ring, which condenses above the critical density 1 / (b - 2) for b > 2.

zipf

  • Miller's random typewriting random_typewriting: Miller's random typewriting, monkeys whose random keystrokes give Zipf's law of word frequencies.
  • Sample-space-reducing process sample_space_reducing: Sample-space-reducing processes, whose state visits follow Zipf's law 1 / i for lam = 1.

zombies