{ "id": "cond-mat/9601036", "version": "v2", "published": "1996-01-10T23:00:25.000Z", "updated": "1996-10-24T22:00:23.000Z", "title": "Self--organized criticality due to a separation of energy scales", "authors": [ "Barbara Drossel" ], "comment": "This paper is very different from the old version which had an error in the simulation code. Please destroy the old version if you have it", "categories": [ "cond-mat.stat-mech" ], "abstract": "Certain systems with slow driving and avalanche-like dissipation events are naturally close to a critical point when the ratio of two energy scales is large. The first energy scale is the threshold above which an avalanche is triggered, the second scale is the threshold above which a site is affected by an avalanche. I present results of computer simulations, and a mean-field theory.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "1996-10-24T22:00:23.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "self-organized criticality", "separation", "first energy scale", "avalanche-like dissipation events", "second scale" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }