In this work we study the critical behavior of the absorbing state phase transition exhibited by the contact process in a linear chain with power-law diluted long-range connections. Each pair of sites is connected with a probability P(r) that decays with the distance between the sites r as...

A method for obtaining critical properties is presented. Based on self-organized criticality, it drives the system spontaneously to the critical point, providing an efficient way to estimate critical properties. The method is illustrated for Ising spin systems, and despite the small lattice...