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Sandpile on uncorrelated site-diluted percolation lattice; From three to two dimensions

Statistical Mechanics 2018-03-14 v1

Abstract

The BTW sandpile model is considered on three dimensional percolation lattice which is tunned with the occupation parameter pp. Along with the three-dimensional avalanches, we study the energy propagation in two-dimensional cross-sections. We use the moment analysis to extract the exponents for two separate cases: the critical (p=pcpc3Dp=p_c\equiv p_c^{3D}) and the off-critical (pc<p1p_c<p\leq 1) cases. The three-dimensional avalanches at p=pcp=p_c has exponents like the regular 2D BTW model, whereas the exponents for the 2D cross-sections have serious similarities with the 2D critical Ising model. The moment analysis show that finite size scaling theory is the fulfilled, and some hyper-scaling relations are confirmed. For the off-critical lattice, the exponents change logarithmically with ppcp-p_c, for which the cut-off exponents ν\nu drop discontinuously from p=pcp=p_c to the other values. The analysis for the 2D cross-sections show a singular behavior at some p0pc2Dp_0\approx p_c^{2D} (pc3Dp_c^{3D} and pc2Dp_c^{2D} being three- and two-dimensional percolation thresholds). We argue that there are two separate phases in the cross-sections, namely pc3Dp<pc2Dp_c^{3D}\leq p<p_c^{2D} which, due to lack of 2D percolation cluster, has no thermodynamic limit, and ppc2Dp\geq p_c^{2D} having the chance to involve percolated clusters.

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@article{arxiv.1801.08977,
  title  = {Sandpile on uncorrelated site-diluted percolation lattice; From three to two dimensions},
  author = {M. N. Najafi and H. Dashti-Naserabadi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.08977},
  year   = {2018}
}