Power laws and distributions with heavy tails are common features of many complex
systems. Examples are the distribution of earthquake magnitudes, solar flare intensities and …

Introduced by the late Per Bak and his colleagues, self-organized criticality (SOC) has been
one of the most stimulating concepts to come out of statistical mechanics and condensed …

Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as
uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences …

Self-organized criticality (SOC) maintains that complex behavior can develop spontaneously
in certain multi-body systems whose dynamics vary abruptly. This is a clear and concise …

Granular materials display a variety of behaviors that are in many ways different from those
of other substances. They cannot be easily classified as either solids or liquids. This has …

We study a general Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld–type automaton model of self-organized criticality
in which the toppling conditions depend on local height, but not on its gradient. We …

A forest-fire model and some thoughts on turbulence Page 1 Volume 147, number 5,6
PHYSICSLETTERS A 16 July 1990 A forest-fire model and some thoughts on turbulence Per …

The concept of self-organized criticality was introduced to explain the behaviour of the
sandpile model. In this model, particles are randomly dropped onto a square grid of boxes …

Studies a two-state version of the sandpile model of self-organized criticality. Instead of a
critical height of stability as in the sandpile model, the author introduces a hard core …

In 438 alphabetically-arranged essays, this work provides a useful overview of the core
mathematical background for nonlinear science, as well as its applications to key problems …