Self-organized critical pinball machine

The nature of self-organized criticality (SOC) is pin-pointed with a simple mechanical model: a pinball machine. Its phase space is fully parameterized by two integer variables, one describing the state of an on-going game, the other describing the state of the machine. This is the simplest possible SOC system, having only two degrees of freedom and no spatial correlations, yet is not solvable by analytical means.

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Year of publication:	2004
Authors:	Flyvbjerg, Henrik
Published in:	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. - Elsevier, ISSN 0378-4371. - Vol. 340.2004, 4, p. 552-558
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Self-organized criticality \| Sandpile model \| Random neighbor model

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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