368 citations · 2.4k across the 88 of their papers we have counts for
4 papers · 1 filter
Forest fires and other examples of self-organized criticality
Siegfried Clar, Barbara Drossel, Franz Schwabl
We review the properties of the self-organized critical (SOC) forest-fire model. The paradigm of self-organized criticality refers to the tendency of certain large dissipative syst…
Winding Angle Distributions for Directed Polymers
Barbara Drossel, Mehran Kardar
We study analytically and numerically the winding of directed polymers of length around each other or around a rod. Unconfined polymers in pure media have exponentially decayin…
A Model for Growth of Binary Alloys with Fast Surface Equilibration
Barbara Drossel, Mehran Kardar
We study a simple growth model for (d+1)-dimensional films of binary alloys in which atoms are allowed to interact and equilibrate at the surface, but are frozen in the bulk. The r…
Self--organized criticality due to a separation of energy scales
Barbara Drossel
Certain systems with slow driving and avalanche-like dissipation events are naturally close to a critical point when the ratio of two energy scales is large. The first energy scale…