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Solitons in the one-dimensional forest fire model
Per Bak, Kan Chen, Maya Paczuski
Fires in the one-dimensional Bak-Chen-Tang forest fire model propagate as solitons, resembling shocks in Burgers turbulence. The branching of solitons, creating new fires, is balan…
Scale Dependent Dimension in the Forest Fire Model
Kan Chen, Per Bak
The forest fire model is a reaction-diffusion model where energy, in the form of trees, is injected uniformly, and burned (dissipated) locally. We show that the spatial distributio…
Self-Organization of Complex Systems
Maya Paczuski, Per Bak
The basic laws of physics are simple, so why is the world complex? The theory of self-organized criticality posits that complex behavior in nature emerges from the dynamics of exte…
Avalanche Dynamics in Evolution, Growth, and Depinning Models
M. Paczuski, S. Maslov, P. Bak
The dynamics of complex systems in nature often occurs in terms of punctuations, or avalanches, rather than following a smooth, gradual path. A comprehensive theory of avalanche dy…