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Phys. Rev. E 66, 045101(R) (2002) [4 pages]

Nonuniversality in the pair contact process with diffusion

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Ronald Dickman1,* and Marcio Argollo Ferreira de Menezes2,†
1Departamento de Física, ICEx, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Caixa Postal 702, 30161-970 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

Received 30 July 2002; published 9 October 2002

We study the static and dynamic behavior of the one dimensional pair contact process with diffusion. Several critical exponents are found to vary with the diffusion rate, while the order-parameter moment ratio m=ρ2̅ /ρ̅ 2 grows logarithmically with system size. The anomalous behavior of m is traced to a violation of scaling in the order parameter probability density, which in turn reflects the presence of two distinct sectors, one purely diffusive, the other reactive, within the active phase. Studies restricted to the reactive sector yield precise estimates for exponents β and ν, and confirm finite size scaling. We also determine the value mc=1.334 for the parity-conserving universality class in one dimension.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.66.045101
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.66.045101
PACS:
05.70.Ln, 64.60.Ht, 05.40.-a

*Email address: dickman@fisica.ufmg.br

Email address: mdemenez@nd.edu