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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%1 Bak1987Selforganized
%A Bak, Per
%A Tang, Chao
%A Wiesenfeld, Kurt
%D 1987
%I American Physical Society
%J Physical Review Letters
%K self\_organized\_criticality critical-phenomena power-laws
%N 4
%P 381--384
%R 10.1103/physrevlett.59.381
%T Self-organized criticality: An explanation of the 1/f noise
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.59.381
%V 59
%X 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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title = {{Self-organized criticality: An explanation of the 1/f noise}},
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