Critical behavior of the pair contact process

Iwan Jensen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1465 – Published 8 March 1993
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Abstract

I study a nonequilibrium lattice model, the pair contact process, in which pairs of particles annihilate with probability p or else create a particle at a vacant nearest neighbor. The model exhibits a continuous phase transition from an active state, with an ongoing production of particles, to an absorbing state without pairs. The model has infinitely many absorbing states. Computer simulations in 1D yielded critical exponents consistent with directed percolation, for the first time placing a model with infinitely many absorbing states firmly in the directed-percolation universality class.

  • Received 9 November 1992

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.1465

©1993 American Physical Society

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Iwan Jensen

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, New York 10468
  • Institute of Physics Astronomy, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

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