Organized Versus Self-Organized Criticality in the Abelian Sandpile Model
A. Fey-den Boer, F. Redig
2005, v.11, Issue 3, 425-442
ABSTRACT
We define stabilizability of an infinite volume height configuration and of a probability measure on height configurations. We show that for high enough densities, a probability measure cannot be stabilized. We also show that in some sense the thermodynamic limit of the uniform measures on the recurrent configurations of the Abelian sandpile model (ASM) is a maximal element of the set of stabilizable measures. In that sense the self-organized critical behavior of the ASM can be understood in terms of an ordinary transition between stabilizable and non-stabilizable.
Keywords: self-organized criticality,Abelian sandpile model,activatedrandom walkers,stabilizability
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