{
  "id": "0711.4571",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2007-11-28T19:58:18.000Z",
  "updated": "2007-11-28T19:58:18.000Z",
  "title": "E-pile model of self-organized criticality",
  "authors": [
    "A. V. Milovanov",
    "K. Rypdal",
    "J. J. Rasmussen"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 2 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "The concept of percolation is combined with a self-consistent treatment of the interaction between the dynamics on a lattice and the external drive. Such a treatment can provide a mechanism by which the system evolves to criticality without fine tuning, thus offering a route to self-organized criticality (SOC) which in many cases is more natural than the weak random drive combined with boundary loss/dissipation as used in standard sand-pile formulations. We introduce a new metaphor, the e-pile model, and a formalism for electric conduction in random media to compute critical exponents for such a system. Variations of the model apply to a number of other physical problems, such as electric plasma discharges, dielectric relaxation, and the dynamics of the Earth's magnetotail.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2007-11-28T19:58:18.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "self-organized criticality",
      "e-pile model",
      "electric plasma discharges",
      "dielectric relaxation",
      "self-consistent treatment"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2007arXiv0711.4571M"
    }
  }
}