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Phys. Rev. E 78, 032101 (2008) [4 pages]

Weakly disordered absorbing-state phase transitions

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José A. Hoyos
Department of Physics, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri 65409, USA and Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA

Received 23 May 2008; published 2 September 2008

The effects of quenched disorder on nonequilibrium phase transitions in the directed percolation universality class are revisited. Using a strong-disorder energy-space renormalization-group method, it is shown that for any amount of disorder the critical behavior is controlled by an infinite-randomness fixed point in the same universality class of the random transverse-field Ising models.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.78.032101
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.78.032101
PACS:
02.50.Ey, 05.70.Jk, 64.60.ae