Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1465 - 1468 (1993)

Critical behavior of the pair contact process

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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

Received 9 November 1992

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.


©1993 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v70/p1465
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.1465
PACS: 64.60.-i, 02.50.-r, 05.50.+q, 05.70.Ln

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