Eur. Phys. J. B 78, 217-223 (2010)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2010-10592-y

Mass-transport models with multiple-chipping processes

¹ School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 110067 New Delhi, India
² Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, 110016 New Delhi, India

Corresponding author: ^a varsha@physics.iitd.ernet.in

Received: 30 July 2010
Revised: 14 October 2010
Published online: 22 November 2010

Abstract

We study mass-transport models with multiple-chipping processes. The rates of these processes are dependent on the chip size and mass of the fragmenting site. In this context, we consider k-chip moves (where k = 1, 2, 3, ...); and combinations of 1-chip, 2-chip and 3-chip moves. The corresponding mean-field (MF) equations are solved to obtain the steady-state probability distributions, P(m) vs. m. We also undertake Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of these models. The MC results are in excellent agreement with the corresponding MF results, demonstrating that MF theory is exact for these models.