Long-tailed trapping times and Lévy flights in a self-organized critical granular system

We present a continuous time random walk model for the scale-invariant transport found in a self-organized critical rice pile [K. Christensen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 107 (1996)]. From our analytical results it is shown that the dynamics of the experiment can be explained in terms of Lvy flights...

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Autores: Boguñá, Marián, Corral, Álvaro
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1997
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/13252
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/13252
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Física estadística
Equacions d'estat
Statistical physics
Equations of state
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Sumario:We present a continuous time random walk model for the scale-invariant transport found in a self-organized critical rice pile [K. Christensen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 107 (1996)]. From our analytical results it is shown that the dynamics of the experiment can be explained in terms of Lvy flights for the grains and a long-tailed distribution of trapping times. Scaling relations for the exponents of these distributions are obtained. The predicted microscopic behavior is confirmed by means of a cellular automaton model.