Self-organization without conservation: True or just apparent scale-invariance?

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Bonachela, Juan A ^a   Muñoz, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Percolation problems (theory); Phase transitions into absorbing states (theory); Sandpile models (theory); Self organized criticality (theory)

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449140681     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2009/09/P09009     Document Type: Article

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