Pietronero, L.; Tartaglia, P.; Zhang, Y.-C. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 173 (1991) 1, pp. 22-44
We study various aspects of the self-organized critical phenomena. A continuous-energy model is analyzed using a self-consistent effective medium method. We find that energy is homogeneously and isotropically distributed in space. We have calculated analytically the critical energy, which is...