Abstract
An investigation of the possibility that the Barkhausen effect in amorphous and polycrystalline ferromagnets is an example of self-organized criticality is described. Since the theory of self-organized criticality was introduced by Bak, Tang, and Weisenfeld to explain the behavior of spatially extended, dissipative, dynamical systems the Barkhausen effect is a natural candidate for such a description. The data are consistent with self-organized critical behavior: the power spectral densities depend on frequency f as 1/fa and the distribution of pulse energies are well described by a power law analogous to the Gutenberg-Richter law for earthquakes. Alternative explanations for power law dependences are also presented.
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