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We study the stochastic sandpile model on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ and demonstrate that the critical density is strictly less than one in all dimensions. This generalizes a previous result by Hoffman, Hu, Richey, and Rizzolo (2022), which was limited…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Concetta Campailla , Nicolas Forien , Lorenzo Taggi

Building on the work of Fyodorov (2004) and Fyodorov and Nadal (2012) we examine the critical behaviour of population of saddles with fixed instability index $k$ in high dimensional random energy landscapes. Such landscapes consist of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Jacek Grela , Boris A. Khoruzhenko

We show that Zhang's sandpile model (N,[a,b]) on N sites and with uniform additions on [a,b] has a unique stationary measure for all 0 <= a < b <= 1. This generalizes earlier results where this was shown in some special cases. We define the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-03 Anne Fey , Haiyan Liu , Ronald Meester

Coarsening of sand ripples is studied in a one-dimensional stochastic model, where neighboring ripples exchange mass with algebraic rates, $\Gamma(m) \sim m^\gamma$, and ripples of zero mass are removed from the system. For $\gamma < 0$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. K. O. Hellén , J. Krug

We investigate the limit shape of the single-source model for stochastic sandpiles on the integer line subject to $p$--topplings. In this model, an initial configuration of $n\in\mathbb{N}$ particles is placed at the origin and stabilized…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-12 David Beck-Tiefenbach , Robin Kaiser , Julia Überbacher

Using hydrodynamic approach, it is shown that the properties of a marginally stable collisionless stellar disc resemble those of a thermodynamic system undergoing a gas--liquid phase transition. The maximum in Toomre's stability diagram,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-04 E. I. Ivannikova , M. N. Maksumov

Statistics of waves of topplings in the Sandpile model is analysed both analytically and numerically. It is shown that the probability distribution of dissipating waves of topplings that touch the boundary of the system obeys power-law with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Chin-Kun Hu , E. V. Ivashkevich , Chai-Yu Lin , V. B. Priezzhev

In a turbulent proto-planetary disk, dust grains undergo large density fluctuations and under the right circumstances, these grain overdensities can overcome shear, turbulent, and gas pressure support to collapse under self-gravity (forming…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Philip F. Hopkins

The dissociation and ionization of hydrogen, during the formation of giant planets via core accretion, reduces the effective adiabatic index $\gamma$ of the gas and could trigger dynamical instability. We generalize the analysis of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Suman Kumar Kundu , Eric R. Coughlin , Andrew N. Youdin , Philip J. Armitage

The current literature on sandpile models mainly deals with the abelian sandpile model (ASM) and its variants. We treat a less known - but equally interesting - model, namely Zhang's sandpile. This model differs in two aspects from the ASM.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anne Fey , Ronald Meester , Corrie Quant , Frank Redig

We study sandpile models with stochastic toppling rules and having sticky grains so that with a non-zero probability no toppling occurs, even if the local height of pile exceeds the threshold value. Dissipation is introduced by adding a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. K. Mohanty , Deepak Dhar

The main purpose of the present paper is to establish a link between quadrature surfaces (potential theoretic concept) and sandpile dynamics (Laplacian growth models). For this aim, we introduce a new model of Laplacian growth on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-23 Hayk Aleksanyan , Henrik Shahgholian

We introduce a family of abelian sandpile models with two parameters $n, m \in {\bf N}$ defined on finite lattices on $d$-dimensional torus. Sites with $2dn+m$ or more grains of sand are unstable and topple, and in each toppling $m$ grains…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Makoto Katori

We introduce a one-dimensional sandpile model which incorporates particle inertia. The inertial dynamics are governed by a new parameter which, as it passes through a threshold value, alters the toppling dynamics in such a way that the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. A. Head , G. J. Rodgers

We introduce and study numerically a directed two-dimensional sandpile automaton with probabilistic toppling (probability parameter p) which provides a good laboratory to study both self-organized criticality and the far-from-equilibrium…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Luebeck , B. Tadic , K. D. Usadel

Random dynamical systems (RDS) evolve by a dynamical rule chosen independently with a certain probability, from a given set of deterministic rules. These dynamical systems in an interval reach a steady state with a unique well-defined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-21 M. S. Shesha Gopal , Soumitro Banerjee , P. K. Mohanty

In this work we investigate the interplay between gravity and turbulence at different spatial scales and in different density regimes. We analyze a sample of 70 $\mu$m quiet clumps that are divided into three surface density bins and we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 A. Traficante , G. A. Fuller , A. Duarte-Cabral , D. Elia , M. H. Heyer , S. Molinari , N. Peretto , E. Schisano

The discrete height abelian sandpile model was introduced by Bak, Tang & Wiesenfeld and Dhar as an example for the concept of self-organized criticality. When the model is modified to allow grains to disappear on each toppling, it is called…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-01 Antal A. Járai , Frank Redig , Ellen Saada

We give a non-trivial upper bound for the critical density when stabilizing i.i.d. distributed sandpiles on the lattice $\mathbb{Z}^2$. We also determine the asymptotic spectral gap, asymptotic mixing time and prove a cutoff phenomenon for…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Bob Hough , Dan Jerison , Lionel Levine

We prove that for the Activated Random Walks model on transitive unimodular graphs, if there is fixation, then every particle eventually fixates, almost surely. We deduce that the critical density is at most 1. Our methods apply for much…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-10-23 Gideon Amir , Ori Gurel-Gurevich