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Crossover phenomenon in self-organized critical sandpile models

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We consider a stochastic sandpile where the sand-grains of unstable sites are randomly distributed to the nearest neighbors. Increasing the value of the threshold condition the stochastic character of the distribution is lost and a crossover to the scaling behavior of a different sandpile model takes place where the sand-grains are equally transferred to the nearest neighbors. The crossover behavior is numerically analyzed in detail, especially we consider the exponents which determine the scaling behavior.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0008304,
  title  = {Crossover phenomenon in self-organized critical sandpile models},
  author = {S. Lubeck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0008304},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review E