The emergence of weak criticality in SOC systems
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Author(s)
Palmieri, L
Jensen, HJ
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Since Self-Organised Criticality (SOC) was introduced in 1987, both the nature of the self-organisation and the criticality have remained controversial. Besides, SOC-like dynamics has recently been observed in many natural processes like brain activity and rain precipitations, making a better understanding of such systems more urgent. Here we focus on the Drossel-Schwabl forest-fire model (FFM) of SOC and show that despite the model is not critical, it nevertheless exhibits a behaviour that justifies the introduction of a new kind of weak criticality. We present a method that allows to quantify the degree of criticality of a system and to introduce a new class of critical systems. This method can be easily adapted to experimental settings and contribute to a better understanding of real systems.
Date Issued
2018-08-20
Date Acceptance
2018-07-25
Citation
EPL, 2018, 123 (2)
ISSN
0295-5075
Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
Journal / Book Title
EPL
Volume
123
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© EPLA, 2018. This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in EPL. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The definitive publisher authenticated version is available online at http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/123/20002/meta
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Physics
FOREST-FIRE MODEL
SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 20002
Date Publish Online
2018-08-20