relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1184/ title: Quenched disorder, memory, and self-organization creator: Marsili, Matteo creator: Caldarelli, Guido creator: Vendruscolo, Michele subject: QC Physics description: We use a stochastic description of models with a dynamic in quenched disorder to analyze the mechanism of their self-organization to a critical state in terms of memory effects. We introduce a framework to characterize both memory effects and avalanche events which suggests that self-organization can result in general from memory. This issue is settled by the introduction and the analysis of a model that contains explicitly memory and generalizes the corresponding dynamics in quenched disorder. The model displays a rich behavior and self-organized critical properties for a whole range of the exponent that tunes the strength of memory. publisher: American Physical Society date: 1996-01 type: Article type: PeerReviewed identifier: Marsili, Matteo and Caldarelli, Guido and Vendruscolo, Michele Quenched disorder, memory, and self-organization. Physical Review E, 53 (1). R13-R16. ISSN 1539-3755 (1996) relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.53.R13 relation: 10.1103/PhysRevE.53.R13