Tricritical directed percolation (Q2494499)

A modification of the well established contact process is considered in order to study the process of tricritical directed percolation. Taking pair reactions into account the modified process exhibits a nontrivial phase diagram containing a tricritical point separating a line of second order phase transitions from a line of first order phase transitions. The transition along the second order line belongs to the universality class of directed percolation. Performing a scaling analysis the tricritical point is determined with high accuracy, that allows a detailed analysis of the triclinical scaling behaviour within steady state together with determination of tricritical exponents, universal scaling functions and universal amplitude reactions.