3 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2025
Colored Sandpile
S. S. Manna
After the introduction of sandpile model a number of different variants have been studied. In most of these models sand particles are indistinguishable. Here we have painted the sa…
cond-mat.stat-mech2025
Describing Self-organized Criticality as a continuous phase transition
S. S. Manna
Can the concept of self-organized criticality, exemplified by models such as the sandpile model, be described within the framework of continuous phase transitions? In this paper, w…
cond-mat.stat-mech2024
Q-factor: A measure of competition between the topper and the average in percolation and in SOC
Asim Ghosh, S. S. Manna, Bikas K. Chakrabarti
We define the -factor in the percolation problem as the quotient of the size of the largest cluster and the average size of all clusters. As the occupation probability is in…