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Universality in sandpiles

Alessandro Chessa, H. Eugene Stanley, Alessandro Vespignani, and Stefano Zapperi
Phys. Rev. E 59, R12(R) – Published 1 January 1999
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Abstract

We perform extensive numerical simulations of different versions of the sandpile model. We find that previous claims about universality classes are unfounded, since the method previously employed to analyze the data suffered from a systematic bias. We identify the correct scaling behavior and provide evidences suggesting that sandpiles with stochastic and deterministic toppling rules belong to the same universality class.

  • Received 24 August 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.59.R12

©1999 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Alessandro Chessa1, H. Eugene Stanley2, Alessandro Vespignani3, and Stefano Zapperi4

  • 1Dipartimento di Fisica and Unitá INFM, Universitá di Cagliari, Via Ospedale 72, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
  • 2Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
  • 3The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), P.O. Box 586, 34100 Trieste, Italy
  • 4PMMH-ESPCI, 10 Rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France

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Comment on “Universality in sandpiles”

Mario De Menech
Phys. Rev. E 70, 028101 (2004)

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Vol. 59, Iss. 1 — January 1999

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