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Title: Tracer particle transport dynamics in the diffusive sandpile cellular automaton

Abstract

The confinement properties of the diffusive running sandpile are characterized by tracking the motion of a population of marked grains of sand. It is found that, as the relative strength of the avalanching to the diffusive transport channel is varied, a point is reached at which the particle global confinement time and the probability density functions of the jump-sizes and waiting-times of the tracked grains experience a sudden change, thus revealing a dynamical transition, that is consistent with previous studies (Newman DE et al., Phys Rev Lett 2002;88(20):204304). Across this transition, the sandpile moves from a regime characterized by self-similarity and memory, where avalanches of all possible sizes dominate transport across the system, to another regime where transport is taken over by near system-size, quasi-periodic avalanches. Values for the fractional transport exponents that quantify effective transport across the sandpile prior to the transition are also obtained.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Universidad de Cantabria, Santander (Spain). Departamento de Física Aplicada
  2. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). Departamento de Física
  3. Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK (United States). Dept. of Physics
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1849554
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1778498
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-04ER54741
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 140; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0960-0779
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; Mathematics; Physics; Diffusive Sandpile; tracer particles; Self-Organized Criticality; fractional transport

Citation Formats

Mier, J. A., Sánchez, R., and Newman, D. E. Tracer particle transport dynamics in the diffusive sandpile cellular automaton. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1016/j.chaos.2020.110117.
Mier, J. A., Sánchez, R., & Newman, D. E. Tracer particle transport dynamics in the diffusive sandpile cellular automaton. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2020.110117
Mier, J. A., Sánchez, R., and Newman, D. E. Thu . "Tracer particle transport dynamics in the diffusive sandpile cellular automaton". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2020.110117. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1849554.
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abstractNote = {The confinement properties of the diffusive running sandpile are characterized by tracking the motion of a population of marked grains of sand. It is found that, as the relative strength of the avalanching to the diffusive transport channel is varied, a point is reached at which the particle global confinement time and the probability density functions of the jump-sizes and waiting-times of the tracked grains experience a sudden change, thus revealing a dynamical transition, that is consistent with previous studies (Newman DE et al., Phys Rev Lett 2002;88(20):204304). Across this transition, the sandpile moves from a regime characterized by self-similarity and memory, where avalanches of all possible sizes dominate transport across the system, to another regime where transport is taken over by near system-size, quasi-periodic avalanches. Values for the fractional transport exponents that quantify effective transport across the sandpile prior to the transition are also obtained.},
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