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cond-mat.stat-mech2000★ 9 cited
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…
cond-mat.stat-mech1999★ 16 cited
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…
cond-mat.stat-mech1999★ 9 cited
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…