Compact directed percolation with movable partial reflectors

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/38/302MaRDI QIDQ4467979zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel ben-Avraham, Ronald Dickman

Publication date 10 June 2004

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0207207

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-04) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Time-dependent percolation in statistical mechanics (82C43)

Abstract: We study a version of compact directed percolation (CDP) in one dimension in which occupation of a site for the first time requires that a "mine" or antiparticle be eliminated. This process is analogous to the variant of directed percolation with a long-time memory, proposed by Grassberger, Chate and Rousseau [Phys. Rev. E 55, 2488 (1997)] in order to understand spreading at a critical point involving an infinite number of absorbing configurations. The problem is equivalent to that of a pair of random walkers in the presence of movable partial reflectors. The walkers, which are unbiased, start one lattice spacing apart, and annihilate on their first contact. Each time one of the walkers tries to visit a new site, it is reflected (with probability r) back to its previous position, while the reflector is simultaneously pushed one step away from the walker. Iteration of the discrete-time evolution equation for the probability distribution yields the survival probability S(t). We find that S(t) sim t^{-delta}, with delta varying continuously between 1/2 and 1.160 as the reflection probability varies between 0 and 1.

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