Monte Carlo simulations of the smeared phase transition in a contact process with extended defects

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/38/6/001zbMATH Open1082.82006arXivcond-mat/0410626OpenAlexW3098256620MaRDI QIDQ4660281FDOQ4660281

Authors: Mark Dickison, Thomas Vojta 

Publication date: 21 March 2005

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

Abstract: We study the nonequilibrium phase transition in a contact process with extended quenched defects by means of Monte-Carlo simulations. We find that the spatial disorder correlations dramatically increase the effects of the impurities. As a result, the sharp phase transition is completely destroyed by smearing. This is caused by effects similar to but stronger than the usual Griffiths phenomena, viz., rare strongly coupled spatial regions can undergo the phase transition independently from the bulk system. We determine both the stationary density in the vicinity of the smeared transition and its time evolution, and we compare the simulation results to a recent theory based on extremal statistics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0410626

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26)

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