Activated random walkers: facts, conjectures and challenges

DOI10.1007/S10955-009-9918-7zbMATH Open1187.82104arXiv0910.2725OpenAlexW2113752843WikidataQ123347414 ScholiaQ123347414MaRDI QIDQ963299FDOQ963299

Authors: Ronald Dickman, Leonardo T. Rolla, Vladas Sidoravicius 

Publication date: 19 April 2010

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a particle system with hopping (random walk) dynamics on the integer lattice $mathbb{Z}^d$. The particles can exist in two states, active or inactive (sleeping); only the former can hop. The dynamics conserves the number of particles; there is no limit on the number of particles at a given site. Isolated active particles fall asleep at rate $lambda>0$, and then remain asleep until joined by another particle at the same site. The state in which all particles are inactive is absorbing. Whether activity continues at long times depends on the relation between the particle density $zeta$ and the sleeping rate $lambda$. We discuss the general case, and then, for the one-dimensional totally asymmetric case, study the phase transition between an active phase (for sufficiently large particle densities and/or small $lambda$) and an absorbing one. We also present arguments regarding the asymptotic mean hopping velocity in the active phase, the rate of fixation in the absorbing phase, and survival of the infinite system at criticality. Using mean-field theory and Monte Carlo simulation, we locate the phase boundary. The phase transition appears to be continuous in both the symmetric and asymmetric versions of the process, but the critical behavior is very different. The former case is characterized by simple integer or rational values for critical exponents ($$, for example), and the phase diagram is in accord with the prediction of mean-field theory. We present evidence that the symmetric version belongs to the universality class of conserved stochastic sandpiles, also known as conserved directed percolation. Simulations also reveal an interesting transient phenomenon of damped oscillations in the activity density.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2725

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zbMATH Keywords

interacting particle systemsabsorbing-state phase transitionsandpilesinteracting random walkers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

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