Introduced by the late Per Bak and his colleagues, self-organized criticality (SOC) has been
one of the most stimulating concepts to come out of statistical mechanics and condensed …

The existence of true scale-invariance in slowly driven models of self-organized criticality
without a conservation law, such as forest-fires or earthquake automata, is scrutinized in this …

The following chapter provides an overview of the techniques used to understand Self-
Organised Criticality (SOC) by performing computer simulations. Those are of particular …

Glitches are sudden spin-up events that punctuate the steady spin-down of pulsars and are
thought to be due to the presence of a superfluid component within neutron stars. The …

Niobium thin films on silicon substrate used in the fabrication of superconducting qubits
have been characterized using scanning and transmission electron microscopy, electrical …

For type-II superconducting bulks used as trapped-field magnets, the thermomagnetic
instability, manifested as flux jumps and temperature spikes, frequently takes place, resulting …

Superconductors are well known for their ability to screen out magnetic fields. In type-II
superconductors, as the magnetic field pressure is progressively increased, magnetic flux …

Magnetic properties of a superconducting lead-porous glass composite were studied. The
glass pore size was 7 nm. The onset of superconductivity was observed at 7.22 K with …

Giant abrupt changes in the magnetic-flux distribution in niobium foils were studied by using
magneto-optical visualization, thermal, and magnetic measurements. Uniform flux jumps …

Inspired by recent observations on active self-organized critical (SOC) systems, we
designed an active pile (or ant pile) model with two ingredients: beyond-threshold toppling …