Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as
uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences …

This review addresses recent developments in non-equilibrium statistical physics. Focusing
on phase transitions from fluctuating phases into absorbing states, the universality class of …

The concept of self-organized criticality was introduced to explain the behaviour of the
sandpile model. In this model, particles are randomly dropped onto a square grid of boxes …

We present generic scaling laws relating spreading critical exponents and avalanche
exponents (in the sense of self-organized criticality) in general systems with absorbing …

We present a unified dynamical mean-field theory, based on the single site approximation to
the master-equation, for stochastic self-organized critical models. In particular, we analyze in …

Innovations are known to arrive more highly clustered than if they were purely random. Their
distribution of importance is highly skewed and appears to obey a power law or lognormal …

A new model of self-organized criticality (SOC) is described which differs from ordinary sand-
pile SOC models in that it uses electrically charged particles of different kinds to propagate …

We study the slow stochastic dynamics near the depinning threshold of an elastic interface
in a random medium by solving a particularly suited model of hopping interacting particles …

Many natural phenomena display “self-organized criticality”(SOC),(Bak et al.,). This refers to
spatially extended systems for which patterns of activity characterized by different …

Probabilistic cellular automata are prototypes of nonequilibrium critical phenomena. This
class of models includes among others the directed percolation problem (Domany-Kinzel …