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Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 381–384 (1987)

Self-organized criticality: An explanation of the 1/f noise

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Per Bak, Chao Tang, and Kurt Wiesenfeld
Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973

Received 13 March 1987; published in the issue dated 27 July 1987

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.

© 1987 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.381
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.381
PACS:
05.40.+j, 02.90.+p

See Also

Comment: Per Bak, Chao Tang, and Kurt Wiesenfeld, Comment on "Relaxation at the Angle of Repose", Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 110 (1989).