Abstract
We show that large, slowly driven systems can evolve to a self-organized critical state where long-range temporal correlations between bursts or avalanches produce low-frequency noise. The avalanches can occur instantaneously in the external time scale of the slow drive, and their event statistics are described by power-law distributions. A specific example of this behavior is provided by numerical simulations of a deterministic “sandpile” model, where a scaling relation links with the avalanche power-law exponent.
- Received 28 May 2001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.66.050101
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