Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2005-11-09
Phys. Rev. E 73, 021303 (2006).
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
13 pages, 23 figures, Submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.73.021303
We study the probability distribution of residence time of a grain at a site, and its total residence time inside a pile, in different ricepile models. The tails of these distributions are dominated by the grains that get deeply buried in the pile. We show that, for a pile of size $L$, the probabilities that the residence time at a site or the total residence time is greater than $t$, both decay as $1/t(\ln t)^x$ for $L^{\omega} \ll t \ll \exp(L^{\gamma})$ where $\gamma$ is an exponent $ \ge 1$, and values of $x$ and $\omega$ in the two cases are different. In the Oslo ricepile model we find that the probability that the residence time $T_i$ at a site $i$ being greater than or equal to $t$, is a non-monotonic function of $L$ for a fixed $t$ and does not obey simple scaling. For model in $d$ dimensions, we show that the probability of minimum slope configuration in the steady state, for large $L$, varies as $\exp(-\kappa L^{d+2})$ where $\kappa$ is a constant, and hence $ \gamma = d+2$.
Dhar Deepak
Pradhan Punyabrata
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