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Granular superconductors and a sandpile model with intrinsic spatial randomness
1Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Leningrad District, 188300 Russia.
Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|September 21, 2002
Abstract:
We present a model for investigation of self-organized criticality applicable to a real physical system: a granular superconductor. The model demonstrates self-organized behavior even in circumstances when other models do not.