Paths to self-organized criticality

AUTOR(ES)

Dickman, Ronald, Muñoz, Miguel A., Vespignani, Alessandro, Zapperi, Stefano

FONTE

Brazilian Journal of Physics

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2000-03

RESUMO

We present a pedagogical introduction to self-organized criticality (SOC), unraveling its connections with nonequilibrium phase transitions. There are several paths from a conventional critical point to SOC. They begin with an absorbing-state phase transition (directed percolation is a familiar example), and impose supervision or driving on the system; two commonly used methods are extremal dynamics, and driving at a rate approaching zero. We illustrate this in sandpiles, where SOC is a consequence of slow driving in a system exhibiting an absorbing-state phase transition with a conserved density. Other paths to SOC, in driven interfaces, the Bak-Sneppen model, and self- organized directed percolation, are also examined. We review the status of experimental realizations of SOC in light of these observations.

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