Watkins, Nicholas W.; Pruessner, Gunnar; Chapman, Sandra; Crosby, Norma B; Jensen, Henrik J (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-05-28)
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 matter theory in the last few decades, and has played a significant role in the development of complexity science. SOC, and more generally fractals and power laws, have
attracted much comment, ranging from the very ...