arXiv:1301.1634 · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical

Avalanches in the raise and peel model in the presence of a wall

Edwin A. Antillon, Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann, Sabre Kais

Published Jun 6, 2013• 0 citations

Abstract

We investigate a non-equilibrium one-dimensional model known as the raise and peel model describing a growing surface which grows locally and has non-local desorption. For specific values of adsorption ( u a ) and desorption ( u d ) rates, the model shows interesting features. At u a = u d , the model is described by a conformal field theory (with conformal charge c = 0) and its stationary probability can be mapped onto the ground state of the XXZ quantum chain. Moreover, for the regime u a ⩾ u d , the model shows a phase in which the avalanche distribution is scale-invariant. In this work, we study the surface dynamics by looking at avalanche distributions using a finite-sized scaling formalism and explore the effect of adding a wall to the model. The model shows the same universality for the cases with and without a wall for an odd number of tiles removed, but we find a new exponent in the presence of a wall for an even number of tiles released in an avalanche. New insights into the effect of parity on avalanche distributions are discussed and we provide a new conjecture for the probability distribution of avalanches with a wall obtained by using an exact diagonalization of small lattices and Monte Carlo simulations.

DOI: 10.1088/1751-8113/46/26/265001

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