Feedback Mechanisms for Self-Organization to the Edge of a Phase Transition
Scale-free outbursts of activity are commonly observed in physical, geological, and biological systems. The idea of self-organized criticality (SOC), introduced back in 1987 by Bak, Tang, and Wiesenfeld suggests that, under certain circumstances, natural systems can seemingly self-tune to a critical...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Physics |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphy.2020.00333/full |