{
  "id": "cond-mat/9806249",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "1998-06-21T10:54:55.000Z",
  "updated": "1998-11-11T18:27:44.000Z",
  "title": "Driving, conservation and absorbing states in sandpiles",
  "authors": [
    "Alessandro Vespignani",
    "Ronald Dickman",
    "Miguel A. Munoz",
    "Stefano Zapperi"
  ],
  "comment": "12 pages, 2 figures; revised version with substantial changes and improvements",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5676",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "We use a phenomenological field theory, reflecting the symmetries and conservation laws of sandpiles, to compare the driven dissipative sandpile, widely studied in the context of self-organized criticality, with the corresponding fixed-energy model. The latter displays an absorbing-state phase transition with upper critical dimension $d_c=4$. We show that the driven model exhibits a fundamentally different approach to the critical point, and compute a subset of critical exponents. We present numerical simulations in support of our theoretical predictions.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "1998-11-11T18:27:44.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "absorbing states",
      "absorbing-state phase transition",
      "corresponding fixed-energy model",
      "conservation laws",
      "phenomenological field theory"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 12,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}