title: Nonconservative abelian sandpile model with the bak-tang-wiesenfeld toppling rule
abstract: A nonconservative Abelian sandpile model with the Bah-Tang-Wiesenfeld toppling rule introduced by Tsuchiya and Katori [Phys. Rev. E 61, 1183 (2000)] is studied. Using a scaling analysis of the different energy scales involved in the model and numerical simulations it is shown that this model belongs to a universality class different from that of previous models considered in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, P.O. Box 586, 34100 Trieste, Italy and Department of Theoretical Physics, Havana University, San Lazaro y L, Havana 10400, Cuba.
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authors.lastname: Vazquez