Fluctuations and correlations in sandpiles and interfaces with boundary pinning

Mikko J. Alava, Amit K. Chattopadhyay

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    Abstract

    Interfaces are studied in an inhomogeneous critical state where boundary pinning is compensated with a ramped force. Sandpiles driven off the self-organized critical point provide an example of this ensemble in the Edwards-Wilkinson (EW) model of kinetic roughening. A crossover from quenched to thermal noise violates spatial and temporal translational invariances. The bulk temporal correlation functions have the effective exponents β1D∼0.88±0.03 and β2D∼0.52±0.05, while at the boundaries βb,1D/2D∼0.47±0.05. The bulk β1D is shown to be reproduced in a randomly kicked thermal EW model.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number016104
    Number of pages5
    JournalPhysical Review E
    Volume69
    Issue number1 2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 20 Jan 2004

    Keywords

    • boundary conditions
    • correlation methods
    • elasticity
    • interfaces (materials)
    • quenching
    • random processes
    • statistical tests
    • surface roughness
    • thermal noise
    • tme domain analysis
    • boundary pinning
    • self organized criticality (SOC)
    • Sand

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