Department of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,
Wuhan 430074, China
Abstract:
Large scale simulations of a rice-pile model are performed. We use moment
analysis techniques to evaluate critical exponents and data collapse method
to verify the obtained results. The moment analysis yields well-defined
avalanche exponents, which show that the rice-pile model can be coherently
described within a finite size scaling framework. The general picture
resulting from our analysis allows us to characterize the large scale
behavior of the present model with great accuracy.