Self-organized criticality due to a separation of energy scales
Certain systems with slow driving and avalanche-like dissipation events are naturally close to a critical point when the ratio of two energy scales is large. The first energy scale is the threshold above which an avalanche is triggered, the second scale is the threshold above which a site is affected by an avalanche. Results of computer simulations, and a mean-field theory are presented.
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1997
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Authors: | Drossel, Barbara |
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Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. - Elsevier, ISSN 0378-4371. - Vol. 236.1997, 3, p. 309-320
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Subject: | Self-organized criticality | Forest-fire model | Non-equilibrium systems |
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