Confirming and extending the hypothesis of universality in sandpiles

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2008-06-25

arxiv.org/abs/0806.4079v2

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041102 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

6 Figures.9 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.78.041102

Stochastic sandpiles self-organize to a critical point with scaling behavior different from directed percolation (DP) and characterized by the presence of an additional conservation law. This is usually called C-DP or Manna universality class. There remains, however, an exception to this universality principle: a sandpile automaton introduced by Maslov and Zhang, which was claimed to be in the directed percolation class despite of the existence of a conservation law. In this paper we show, by means of careful numerical simulations as well as by constructing and analyzing a field theory, that (contrarily to what previously thought) this sandpile is also in the C-DP or Manna class. This confirms the hypothesis of universality for stochastic sandpiles, and gives rise to a fully coherent picture of self-organized criticality in systems with a conservation law. In passing, we obtain a number of results for the C-DP class and introduce a new strategy to easily discriminate between DP and C-DP scaling.

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