Residence Time Distribution of Sand Grains in the 1-Dimensional Abelian Sandpile Model

Abstract

We study the probability distribution of residence time, $T$, of the sand grains in the one dimensional abelian sandpile model on a lattice of $L$ sites, for $T<<L^2$ and $T>>L^2$. The distribution function decays as $\exp(-\frac{K_LT}{L^2})$. We numerically calculate the coefficient $K_L$ for the value of $L$ upto 150 . Interestingly the distribution function has a scaling form $\frac{1}{L^a}f(\frac{T}{L^b})$ with $a \neq b$ for large $L$.