Probability distribution of residence times of grains in models of ricepiles

Abstract

We study the probability distribution of residence time of a grain at a site, and its total residence time inside a pile, in different ricepile models. The tails of these distributions are dominated by the grains that get deeply buried in the pile. We show that, for a pile of size $L$, the probabilities that the residence time at a site or the total residence time is greater than $t$, both decay as $1/t(\ln t{)}^x$ for $L^{\omega }\ll t\ll \exp (L^{\gamma })$ where $\gamma$ is an exponent $\ge 1$, and values of $x$ and $\omega$ in the two cases are different. In the Oslo ricepile model we find that the probability that the residence time $T_i$ at a site $i$ being greater than or equal to $t$, is a non-monotonic function of $L$ for a fixed $t$ and does not obey simple scaling. For model in $d$ dimensions, we show that the probability of minimum slope configuration in the steady state, for large $L$, varies as $\exp (-\kappa L^{d+2})$ where $\kappa$ is a constant, and hence $\gamma =d+2$.

arXiv comment13 pages, 23 figures, Submitted to Phys. Rev. E

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