Self-Structuring of Granular Media under Internal Avalanches
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v3
Abstract
We study the phenomenon of internal avalanching within the context of recently proposed ``Tetris'' lattice models for granular media. We define a recycling dynamics under which the system reaches a steady state which is self-structured, i.e. it shows a complex interplay between textured internal structures and critical avalanche behavior. Furthermore we develop a general mean-field theory for this class of systems and discuss possible scenarios for the breakdown of universality.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9812074,
title = {Self-Structuring of Granular Media under Internal Avalanches},
author = {S. Krishnamurthy and V. Loreto and H. J. Herrmann and S. S. Manna and S. Roux},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9812074},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages RevTex, 3 eps figures, revised version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett