Critical exponents


Two-dimensional Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld model:

The 2D Bak, Tang, and Wiesenfeld sandpile model for system sizes L = 50, 100, and 200 with open boundary conditions. (a) The probability of initiating an avalanche of size s in a system of size L, P(s,L) decreases algebraically with s. The cutoff is a finite-size effect. The displayed distribution functions are averaged over exponentially increasing bins. (b) A reasonable finite size scaling data collapse is obtained with  t= 2.15 ± 0.1 and  n= 2.7 ± 0.1.


Albert Díaz-Guilera
Darrera actualització 13/01/2003