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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%1 Bak1988Selforganized
%A Bak, Per
%A Tang, Chao
%A Wiesenfeld, Kurt
%D 1988
%I American Physical Society
%J Physical Review A
%K self\_organized\_criticality
%N 1
%P 364--374
%R 10.1103/physreva.38.364
%T Self-organized criticality
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physreva.38.364
%V 38
%X 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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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.}},
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title = {{Self-organized criticality}},
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