Cellular automata and two-level systems dynamics - Spreading of disorder

  • Authors:
  • A. Kowalewska-Kudłaszyk;W. Leoński

  • Affiliations:
  • Nonlinear Optics Division, Institute of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland. E-mail: {annakow,wleonski}@amu.edu.pl;Nonlinear Optics Division, Institute of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland. E-mail: {annakow,wleonski}@amu.edu.pl

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We focus on description of disorder in a system which is composed of a large number of two level subsystems using the cellular automata formalism. We introduce parameters which can be used as a measure of disorder spreading in such a complex system. These parameters are defined via the entropy and we show their usefulness for description of disorder in the system discussed.