Transport in Sand Piles, Interface Depinning, and Earthquake Models
Paczuski, Maya · Boettcher, Stefan
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Recent numerical results for a model describing dispersive transport in rice piles are explained by mapping the model to the depinning transition of an interface that is dragged at one end through a random medium. The average velocity of transport vanishes with system size L as <v> L²⁻ᵈ L⁻⁰.²³, and the avalanche size distribution exponent τ= 2 - 1/D ≃ 1.55, where D≃ 2.23 from interface depinning. We conjecture that the purely deterministic Burridge-Knopoff ``train'' model for earthquakes is in the same universality class.
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