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Steady State of Stochastic Sandpile Models

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We study the steady state of the Abelian sandpile models with stochastic toppling rules. The particle addition operators commute with each other, but in general these operators need not be diagonalizable. We use their Abelian algebra to determine their eigenvalues, and the Jordan block structure. These are then used to determine the probability of different configurations in the steady state. We illustrate this procedure by explicitly determining the numerically exact steady state for a one dimensional example, for systems of size ≤12, and also study the density profile in the steady state.

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Sadhu, T., Dhar, D. Steady State of Stochastic Sandpile Models. J Stat Phys 134, 427–441 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-009-9683-7

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