Self-organized criticality [article]

Michael Creutz
1996 arXiv   pre-print
I review the concept of self-organized criticality, wherein dissipative systems naturally drive themselves to a critical state with important phenomena occurring over a wide range of length and time scales. Several exact results are demonstrated for the Abelian sandpile.
arXiv:hep-lat/9611018v1 fatcat:5zzmiozzvfbalan6whskg4vw2u