Joseph, D. - In: The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and … 11 (1999) 1, pp. 1-4
Self-organized critical models are used to describe the 1/f-spectra of rather different physical situations like snow avalanches, noise of electric currents, luminosities of stars or topologies of landscapes. The prototype of the SOC-models is the sandpile model of Bak, Tang and Wiesenfeld...