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1Departamento de Física, ICEx, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. dickman@fisica.ufmg.br
Abstract:
We study distributions of dissipative and nondissipative avalanches in Manna's stochastic sandpile, in one and two dimensions. Our results lead to the following conclusions: (1) avalanche distributions, in general, do not follow simple power laws, but rather have the form P(s) approximately s(-tau(s))(ln s)(gamma)f(s/s(c)), with f a cutoff function; (2) the exponents for sizes of dissipative avalanches in two dimensions differ markedly from the corresponding values for the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld (BTW) model, implying that the BTW and Manna models belong to distinct universality classes; (3) dissipative avalanche distributions obey finite-size scaling, unlike in the BTW model.
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