Self-organized criticality and punctuated equilibria

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 107, Issue 2-4, 1997, Pages 143-150

  Bak, Per ^a,c   Boettcher, Stefan ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Avalanches; Glassy dynamics; Landscapes; Punctuated equilibrium; Self organized criticality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006031261     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(97)00078-X     Document Type: Article

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