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Two-component abelian sandpile models

Statistical Mechanics 2009-04-25 v2

Abstract

In one-component abelian sandpile models, the toppling probabilities are independent quantities. This is not the case in multi-component models. The condition of associativity of the underlying abelian algebras impose nonlinear relations among the toppling probabilities. These relations are derived for the case of two-component quadratic abelian algebras. We show that abelian sandpile models with two conservation laws have only trivial avalanches.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0810.4053,
  title  = {Two-component abelian sandpile models},
  author = {F. C. Alcaraz and P. Pyatov and V. Rittenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.4053},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Final version. To appear in Phys.Rev.E

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