de Sousa Vieira, Maria - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 340 (2004) 4, pp. 559-565
We show that deterministic systems with strong nonlinearities seem to be more appropriate to model sandpiles than stochastic systems or deterministic systems in which discontinuities are the only nonlinearity. In particular, we are able to reproduce the breakdown of self-organized criticality...