Simple model for 1/f noise

Details Simple model for 1/f noise Simple model for 1/f noise

2002-01-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201198v1

Phys. Rev. E 65, 026120 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.65.026120

We present a simple stochastic mechanism which generates pulse trains exhibiting a power law distribution of the pulse intervals and a $1/f^\alpha$ power spectrum over several decades at low frequencies with $\alpha$ close to one. The essential ingredient of our model is a fluctuating threshold which performs a Brownian motion. Whenever an increasing potential $V(t)$ hits the threshold, $V(t)$ is reset to the origin and a pulse is emitted. We show that if $V(t)$ increases linearly in time, the pulse intervals can be approximated by a random walk with multiplicative noise. Our model agrees with recent experiments in neurobiology and explains the high interpulse interval variability and the occurrence of $1/f^\alpha$ noise observed in cortical neurons and earthquake data.

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