Phase transition for a non-attractive infection process in heterogeneous environment

zbMATH Open1398.82035arXiv1706.08216MaRDI QIDQ5376124FDOQ5376124

Authors: Marinus Gottschau, Markus Heydenreich, Kilian Matzke, Cristina Toninelli 

Publication date: 17 September 2018

Abstract: We consider a non-attractive three state contact process on $mathbbZ$ and prove that there exists a regime of survival as well as a regime of extinction. In more detail, the process can be regarded as an infection process in a dynamic environment, where non-infected sites are either healthy or passive. Infected sites can recover only if they have a healthy site nearby, whereas non-infected sites may become infected only if there is no healthy and at least one infected site nearby. The transition probabilities are governed by a global parameter $q$: for large $q$, the infection dies out, and for small enough $q$, we observe its survival. The result is obtained by a coupling to a discrete time Markov chain, using its drift properties in the respective regimes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08216

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitioncontact processsurvival versus extinction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26)

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• Kinetically constrained models out of equilibrium

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