Phys. Rev. E 72, 016111 (2005) [8 pages]Extinction of epidemics in lattice models with quenched disorderReceived 25 January 2005; published 18 July 2005 The extinction of the contact process for epidemics in lattice models with quenched disorder is analyzed in the limit of small density of infected sites. It is shown that the problem in such a regime can be mapped to the quantum-mechanical one characterized by the Anderson Hamiltonian for an electron in a random lattice. It is demonstrated both analytically (self-consistent mean field) and numerically (by direct diagonalization of the Hamiltonian and by means of cellular automata simulations) that disorder enhances the contact process, given the mean values of random parameters are not influenced by disorder. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.72.016111
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.72.016111
PACS:
05.50.+q, 71.23.−k, 02.50.−r
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