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Self-organized criticality
Physical review. A, General physics · 1988 · Vol. 38(1) · pp. 364–374
Per Bak✉(Brookhaven National Laboratory)Chao Tang(Brookhaven National Laboratory)Kurt Wiesenfeld(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Abstract
We show that certain extended dissipative dynamical systems naturally evolve into a critical state, with no characteristic time or length scales. The temporal ``fingerprint'' of the self-organized critical state is the presence of flicker noise or 1/f noise; its spatial signature is the emergence of scale-invariant (fractal) structure.
Theoretical and Computational PhysicsComplex Systems and Time Series AnalysisStatistical Mechanics and EntropySelf-organized criticalityDissipative systemStatistical physicsCriticalityScale invariancePhysicsSignature (topology)Noise (video)FractalComputer science
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