Criticality in a mass-aggregation model

Célia L. Rodrigues and André M.C. de Souza

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2001, vol. 295, issue 1, 123-127

Abstract: We use Monte Carlo simulation to study new features of a mass-aggregation model which undergoes a dynamical phase transition. The model is characterized by an aggregate phase where the mass distribution decays as a power law, in addition to the delta function peak at infinite mass. The self-organized criticality state is observed. The avalanches in the critical state manifest a power law distribution, that reveals the existence of avalanches for all scales.

Keywords: Nonequilibrium phase transitions; Mass-aggregation model; Self-organized criticality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00063-2

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