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Nonuniversal exponents in sandpiles with stochastic particle number transfer

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-10 v3

Abstract

We study fixed density sandpiles in which the number of particles transferred to a neighbor on relaxing an active site is determined stochastically by a parameter pp. Using an argument, the critical density at which an active-absorbing transition occurs is found exactly. We study the critical behavior numerically and find that the exponents associated with both static and time-dependent quantities vary continuously with pp.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0412322,
  title  = {Nonuniversal exponents in sandpiles with stochastic particle number transfer},
  author = {Kavita Jain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0412322},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Some parts rewritten, results unchanged. To appear in Europhys. Lett