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Self-organized criticality: An explanation of the 1/f noise
Abstract
We show that dynamical systems with spatial degrees of freedom naturally evolve into a self-organized critical point. Flicker noise, or 1/f noise, can be identified with the dynamics of the critical state. This picture also yields insight into the origin of fractal objects.
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- Authors
- Bak, P., Tang, C., & Wiesenfeld, K.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1987-07-27
- Volume
- 59
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 381-384
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
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- W2075514521
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- 7,591
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- FWCI
- 11.56
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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