Energy avalanches in a rice-pile model
arXiv:cond-mat/9610011 · doi:10.1016/0378-4371(96)00129-X
Abstract
We investigate a one-dimensional rice-pile model. We show that the distribution of dissipated potential energy decays as a power law with an exponent $α=1.53$. The system thus provides a one-dimensional example of self-organized criticality. Different driving conditions are examined in order to allow for comparison with experiments.
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