Field theory of absorbing phase transitions with a nondiffusive conserved field

We investigate the critical behavior of a reaction-diffusion system exhibiting a continuous absorbing-state phase transition. The reaction-diffusion system strictly conserves the total density of particles, represented as a nondiffusive conserved field, and allows an infinite number of absorbing con...

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Authors: Pastor Satorras, Romualdo|||0000-0002-4051-6007; Vespignani, Alessandro
Format: Article
Publication date:2000
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repository:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/126232
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/126232
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.62.R5875
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Physisorption
Reaction-diffusion system
Phase transition
Absorció
Fisicoquímica
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física
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Summary:We investigate the critical behavior of a reaction-diffusion system exhibiting a continuous absorbing-state phase transition. The reaction-diffusion system strictly conserves the total density of particles, represented as a nondiffusive conserved field, and allows an infinite number of absorbing configurations. Numerical results show that it belongs to a wide universality class that also includes stochastic sandpile models. We derive microscopically the field theory representing this universality class.