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 …

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 …

" When Bak, Tang, and Wiesenfeld (1987) coined the term Self-Organised Criticality (SOC),
it was an explanation for an unexpected observation of scale invariance and at the same …

The existence of true scale-invariance in slowly driven models of self-organized criticality
without a conservation law, such as forest-fires or earthquake automata, is scrutinized in this …

The following chapter provides an overview of the techniques used to understand Self-
Organised Criticality (SOC) by performing computer simulations. Those are of particular …

A linear stochastic model is presented for the dynamics of water vapor and tropical
convection. Despite its linear formulation, the model reproduces a wide variety of …

We present simulations of the one-dimensional Oslo rice pile model in which the critical
height at each site is randomly reset after each toppling. We use the fact that the stationary …

We propose a spin model with quenched disorder which exhibits in slow driving two
drastically different types of critical nonequilibrium steady states. One of them corresponds to …

The detection and characterization of self-organized criticality (SOC), in both real and
simulated data, has undergone many significant revisions over the past 25 years. The …

Stochastic sandpiles self-organize to an absorbing-state critical point with scaling behavior
different from directed percolation (DP) and characterized by the presence of an additional …