Playing with sandpiles
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
The Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld sandpile model provdes a simple and elegant system with which to demonstate self-organized criticality. This model has rather remarkable mathematical properties first elucidated by Dhar. I demonstrate some of these properties graphically with a simple computer simulation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0401302,
title = {Playing with sandpiles},
author = {Michael Creutz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0401302},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Contribution to the Niels Bohr Summer Institute on Complexity and Criticality; to appear in a Per Bak Memorial Issue of PHYSICA A; 6 pages 3 figures