Criticality of tuning in athermal phase transitions

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We experimentally address the importance of tuning in athermal phase transitions, which are triggered only by a slowly varying external field acting as tuning parameter. Using higher order statistics of fluctuations, a singular critical instability is detected for the first time in spite of an apparent universal self-similar kinetics over a broad range of driving force. The results as well as the experimental technique are likely to be of significance to many slowly driven non-equilibrium systems from geophysics to material science which display avalanche dynamics.
5 pages, 4 figures

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Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/217159

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https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0102
 http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0102
 Physical Review Letters 102, 025701 (2009).
 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.025701

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