Anomalous scaling in the Zhang model

We apply the moment analysis technique to analyze large scale simulations of the Zhang sandpile model. We find that this model shows different scaling behavior depending on the update mechanism used. With the standard parallel updating, the Zhang model violates the finite-size scaling hypothesis, an...

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Autores: Pastor Satorras, Romualdo|||0000-0002-4051-6007, Vespignani, Alessandro
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2000
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/126338
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/126338
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s100510070048
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Physics--Simulation methods
Zhang model
Física--Mètodes de simulació
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física
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Sumario:We apply the moment analysis technique to analyze large scale simulations of the Zhang sandpile model. We find that this model shows different scaling behavior depending on the update mechanism used. With the standard parallel updating, the Zhang model violates the finite-size scaling hypothesis, and it also appears to be incompatible with the more general multifractal scaling form. This makes impossible its affiliation to any one of the known universality classes of sandpile models. With sequential updating, it shows scaling for the size and area distribution. The introduction of stochasticity into the toppling rules of the parallel Zhang model leads to a scaling behavior compatible with the Manna universality class.