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Universality classes in directed sandpile models

Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Alessandro Vespignani

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

We perform large-scale numerical simulations of a directed version of the two-state stochastic sandpile model. Numerical results show that this stochastic model defines a new universality class with respect to the Abelian directed sandpile. The physical origin of the different critical behaviour has to be ascribed to the presence of multiple topplings in the stochastic model. These results provide new insight into the long-debated question of universality in Abelian and stochastic sandpiles.


PACS

05.50.+q Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.)

05.65.+b Self-organized systems

05.70.Jk Critical point phenomena

MSC

82C27 Dynamic critical phenomena

82C31 Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) (See also 60H10)

Subjects

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 3 (28 January 2000)

Received 27 July 1999



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