Self-organized criticality: An explanation of the 1/f noise
Abstract
The development of flicker noise (1/f noise) in dynamical systems with extended spatial degrees of freedom is investigated analytically. A natural evolution of self-organized critical structures of states which are barely stable is demonstrated, and the results of numerical simulations are presented graphically. The implications of the present analytical approach for phenomena related to 1/f noise (such as the self-similar fractal structure of spatially extended objects and the development of turbulence) are discussed.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- July 1987
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1987PhRvL..59..381B
- Keywords:
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- Degrees Of Freedom;
- Dynamical Systems;
- Flicker;
- Fractals;
- Noise Spectra;
- Self Organizing Systems;
- Arrays;
- Clumps;
- Strange Attractors;
- Systems Stability;
- Physics (General);
- 05.40.+j;
- 02.90.+p;
- Other topics in mathematical methods in physics