title: Self-organized criticality: robustness of scaling exponents.
abstract: We investigate a deterministic, conservative, undirected, critical height sandpile model with dissipation of an energy at boundaries that can simulate avalanche dynamics. It was derived from the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld model [P. Bak, C. Tang, and K. Wiesenfeld, Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 381 (1987)] introducing an additional second-higher threshold so the model has two distinct thresholds. Our computer simulations for a two-dimensional lattice show that scaling properties of the model depend on the higher-threshold values and site concentrations. These results are not therefore consistent with the present self-organized criticality hypothesis where the scaling properties are independent of the model parameters.
authors: University of P. J. Safárik, Department of Biophysics, Jesenná 5, SK-04000 Kosice, Slovak Republic. jcernak@kosice.upjs.sk
authors: Jozef
authors: J
authors: Cernák