Sandpile on directed small-world networks

Abstract

We numerically investigate the avalanche dynamics of the Bak–Tang–Wiesenfeld sandpile model on directed small-world networks. We find that the avalanche size and duration distribution follow a power law for all rewiring probabilities p. Specially, we find that, approaching the thermodynamic limit ( L→ ∞), the values of critical exponents do not depend on p and are consistent with the mean-field solution in Euclidean space for any p>0. In addition, we measure the dynamic exponent in the relation between avalanche size and avalanche duration and find that the values of the dynamic exponents are also consistent with the mean-field values for any p>0.