Sokolov, Andrey; Melatos, Andrew; Kieu, Tien; Webster, … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 428 (2015) C, pp. 295-301
We report results of a numerical analysis of the memory effects in two-dimensional Abelian sandpiles. It is found that a sandpile forgets its instantaneous configuration in two distinct stages: a fast stage and a slow stage, whose durations roughly scale as N and N2 respectively, where N is the...