Notice of RetractionFrom disorder applause to emerging rhythmic clapping

Notice of Retraction

After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

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This paper initiates a novel simple mathematical model for exploring the mysterious dynamical mechanism of synchronized clapping. Based on this model, we set up an experimental platform of emergent computation for simulating many hands clapping. We find that there exists a critical region from the disorder applause to the emerging rhythmic clapping. Moreover, the clapping intervals obviously slacken in this critical region. This result generalizes the well known conclusion “the clapping period suddenly doubled at the start of the synchronized phase”. Furthermore, we attain an effective synchronous criterion for the emerging rhythmic clapping. Our model and approach shed some new insights on the collective behaviours of complex systems in nature and human societies.