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Self-organized criticality
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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.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bak, P., Tang, C., & Wiesenfeld, K.
- Venue
- Physical Review A
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1988-07-01
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 364-374
- ISSN
- 0556-2791 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2008879046
- Cited by
- 4,713
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 17.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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