Self-organized critical pinball machine

H. Flyvbjerg

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2004.05.005

Self-organized critical pinball machine

H. Flyvbjerg

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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. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Journal	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume	340
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	552-558
ISSN	0378-4371
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2004.05.005
Publication status	Published - 2004

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