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Self-Organized Criticality

Self-Organized Criticality (SOC) is a dynamical systems framework introduced by Per Bak, Chao Tang, and Kurt Wiesenfeld in 1987 to explain how large, dissipative systems spontaneously evolve toward a critical state without external fine-tuning. At the critical state, the system produces scale-invariant fluctuations — avalanches whose size and duration follow power-law distributions — and generates 1/f (pink) noise in its power spectrum.

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Self-Organized Criticality
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  • Bak, P., Tang, C., & Wiesenfeld, K. (1987). Self-organized criticality: An explanation of 1/f noise. Physical Review Letters, 59(4), 381–384. · DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.381
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