{
  "id": "cond-mat/0107317",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2001-07-14T11:35:54.000Z",
  "updated": "2001-07-14T11:35:54.000Z",
  "title": "Breakdown of self-organized criticality",
  "authors": [
    "Maria de Sousa Vieira"
  ],
  "comment": "3 pages, 4 figures",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.66.051306",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "We introduce two sandpile models which show the same behavior of real sandpiles, that is, an almost self-organized critical behavior for small systems and the dominance of large avalanches as the system size increases. The systems become fully self-organized critical, with the critical exponents of the Bak, Tang and Wiesenfeld model, as the system parameters are changed, showing that these systems can make a bridge between the well known theoretical and numerical results and what is observed in real experiments. We find that a simple mechanism determines the boundary where self-organized can or cannot exist, which is the presence of local chaos.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2001-07-14T11:35:54.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "self-organized criticality",
      "simple mechanism determines",
      "small systems",
      "large avalanches",
      "local chaos"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. E"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 3,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}