Sandpiles and self-organized criticality

This article provides an overview of some of the methods of sandpiles that have been studied in literature. The question whether real sandpiles exhibit self-organized criticality is discussed briefly, and a tentative explanation of the observed failure of scaling in the experiments by the IBM group offered.

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