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1/f noise from correlations between avalanches in self-organized criticality

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-07 v2 Astrophysics

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 1/fα1/f^{\alpha} 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.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0105532,
  title  = {1/f noise from correlations between avalanches in self-organized criticality},
  author = {J. Davidsen and M. Paczuski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0105532},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Completely revised version: 4 pages (revtex), 3 eps figures