Published July 1, 1988 | Version v1
Journal article

Self-organized criticality

  • 1. Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973

Description

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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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev., A
Journal Volume
38
Journal Issue
1
Series
Phys. Rev., A.
Journal Page Range
364-374
ISSN
0556-2791
CODEN
PLRAA

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
19079466
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
DEGREES OF FREEDOM; ENERGY LOSSES; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; NOISE; STATISTICAL MECHANICS
Descriptors DEC
MECHANICS