Self-organized criticality

Hierarchical model of defect development makes possible the consideration of both ordinary and self-organized criticality from the common viewpoint. Scale invariant critical state in this model is presented by fixed points of a renormalization transformation, connected with lifting to the next level of hierarchy. So stable fixed points of the transformation correspond to the self-organized criticality and unstable points correspond to the ordinary one.

We propose a full solution for Manna model – two-dimensional conservative sandpile model with the rules of grains redistribution isotropic at the average. Indices of the probability distributions of avalanches main characteristics (size, area, perimeter, duration, topplings multiplicity) are determined for this model both from theory and from simulations. 

We numerically and analytically investigate two self-organized critical sandpile models with anisotropic dynamics of the activity propagation – Dhar–Ramaswamy and discrete Feder–Feder models. The full set of critical indices for these models is theoretically