Do Not to Forget to Square your Fourier Amplitudes
Since a power spectrum is the square of the Fourier amplitude,
if one forgets to take the square operation, a 1/f2
noise may be mistaken as a 1/f noise.
2005
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Lasse Laurson, Mikko J Alava and Stefano Zapperi (2005),
"Power spectra of self-organized critical sandpiles",
Journal of Statistical Mechanics, L11001
[ abstract]
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2001
1999
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P Helander, SC Chapman, RO Dendy, G Rowlands, NW Watkins (1999),
"Exactly solvable sandpile with fractal avalanching",
Physical Review E, 59:6356-6360.
[abstract]
1996
1991
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Hans Jacob S Feder, Jens Feder (1991),
"Erratum: Self-organized criticality in a stick-slip process",
Physical Review Letters, 67(2):283.
[text: Because of a programming error the square root of the power
spectrum was used instead of the power spectrum itself. This means
that the correct result is that we observe S(f) ~ 1/f2
noise (instead of 1/f noise as stated). Thus the slope in Fig. 3 is
cphi = 2 +- 0.06. We conclude that 1/f2 noise is observed,
as in the sandpile experiments]
1990
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J Kertesz,
LB Kiss (Kish) (1990),
"Noise spectrum in the model of self-organized
criticality",
Journal of Physics A, 23:L433-L440.
[abstract]
1989
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Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen,
Kim Christensen,
Hans C Fogedby (1989),
"1/f noise, distribution of lifetimes, and a pile of sand",
Physical Review B, 40(10):7425-7427.
[abstract]
[Comment: this is the paper that pointed out that the 1/f noise
claimed in Bak,Tang,Wiesenfeld (1987) paper is actually 1/f2
noise.]
1987
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Per Bak, Chao Tang, Kurt Wiesenfeld (1987),
"Self-organized criticality: an explanation of the 1/f noise",
Physical Review Letters, 59(4):381-384.
[abstract]
Obituary of Per Bak (1948- 2002)