Publication index

Avalanches, Jamming, Stick-Slip Motion, and Highly-Nonlinear Dynamical Instabilities

1. O. Pla, F. Nori
   Self-organized critical behavior in pinned flux lattices
   Phys. Rev. Lett 67, 919 (1991). [PDF][Link]

2. M. Bretz, J. Cunningham, P. Kurczynski, F. Nori
   Imaging of avalanches in granular materials
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 2431 (1992). [PDF][Link]

3. B. Plourde, F. Nori, M. Bretz
   Water droplet avalanches
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 2749 (1993). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

4. V.G. Benza, F. Nori, O. Pla
   Mean field theory of sandpile avalanches: From the intermittent to the continuous flow regime
   Phys. Rev. E 48, 4095 (1993). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

5. R.A. Richardson, O. Pla, F. Nori
   Confirmation of the modified bean model from simulations of superconducting vortices
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 1268 (1994). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

6. S.B. Field, N. Venturi, F. Nori
   Marginal Stability and Chaos in Coupled Faults Modeled by Nonlinear Circuits
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 74 (1995). [PDF][Link]

7. S.B. Field, J. Witt, F. Nori, X.S. Ling
   Superconducting vortex avalanches
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 1206 (1995). [PDF][Link]

8. F. Nori, B. Plourde, M. Bretz
   Droplet avalanches
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 3498 (1995). [PDF][Link]

9. S.B. Field, M. Klaus, M.G. Moore, F. Nori
   Chaotic dynamics of falling disks
   Nature 388, 252 (1997). [PDF][Link]

10. F. Nori, P. Sholtz, M. Bretz
    Booming sand
    Scientific American 277, No. 3 (84) (1997). [PDF][Link]
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11. P. Sholtz, M. Bretz, F. Nori
    Sound-producing sand avalanches
    Contemporary Physics 38, No. 5, 329 (1997). [PDF][Link]

12. C.J. Olson, C. Reichhardt, J. Groth, S.B. Field, F. Nori
    Plastic flow, voltage noise, and vortex avalanches in superconductors
    Physica C 290, 89-97 (1997). [Link][arXiv]

13. C.J. Olson, C. Reichhardt, F. Nori
    Superconducting vortex avalanches, voltage bursts, and vortex plastic flow: Effect of the microscopic pinning landscape on the macroscopic properties
    Phys. Rev. B 56, 6175 (1997). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

14. G. D'Anna, F. Nori
    Critical dynamics of burst instabilities in the Portevin-Le Chatelier effect
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4096 (2001). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

15. A. Maeda, Y. Inoue, H. Kitano, S. Savel'ev, S. Okayasu, I. Tsukada, F. Nori
    Nanoscale friction: Kinetic friction of magnetic flux quanta and charge density waves
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 077001 (2005). [PDF][Link]

16. S. Savel'ev, A.L. Rakhmanov, F. Nori
    Experimentally realizable devices for domain wall motion control
    New J. Phys. 7, 82 (2005). [PDF][Link]
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17. N. Mitarai, F. Nori
    Wet granular materials
    Advances in Physics 55, 1-45 (2006). [PDF]

18. M. Bretz, R. Zaretzki, S.B. Field, N. Mitarai, F. Nori
    Broad distribution of stick-slip events in slowly sheared granular media: Table-top production of a Gutenberg-Richter-like distribution
    Europhys. Lett. 74, 1116-1122 (2006). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

19. S. Savel'ev, A.L. Rakhmanov, F. Nori
    Domain-wall step motors: Controlling the motion of magnetic domain walls using patterned magnetic films
    Phys. Rev. B 74, 024404 (2006). [PDF][Link]

20. S. Savel'ev, F. Marchesoni, A. Taloni, F. Nori
    Diffusion of interacting Brownian particles: Jamming and anomalous diffusion
    Phys. Rev. E 74, 021119 (2006). [PDF][Link]