title: Waiting-time statistics of self-organized-criticality systems.
abstract: It is argued that a system governed by self-organized-criticality (SOC) dynamics can lack Poisson waiting-time statistics not only when the experimental resolution lies within the self-similar scale range but also if the system is slowly driven in a correlated way. This result thus suggests that waiting time statistics cannot be used as a necessary test for SOC behavior in real physical systems.
authors.affiliation: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 28911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain. rsanchez@fis.uc3m.es
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sánchez
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Newman
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Carreras