Internal avalanches in models of granular media

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1998-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9812075v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

12 pages including 9 eps figures, LaTeX. To appear in Fractals

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We study the phenomenon of internal avalanching within the context of recently introduced lattice models of granular media. The avalanche is produced by pulling out a grain at the base of the packing and studying how many grains have to rearrange before the packing is once more stable. We find that the avalanches are long-ranged, decaying as a power-law. We study the distriution of avalanches as a function of the density of the packing and find that the avalanche distribution is a very sensitive structural probe of the system.

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