Single-site approximation for reaction-diffusion processes

DOI10.1007/S10955-006-9206-8MaRDI QIDQ867062zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Canet, H. J. Hilhorst

Publication date 14 February 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0605254

zbMATH Keywords

branching annihilating random walksnonequilibrium phase transitionreaction-diffusion processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) 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) Time-dependent percolation in statistical mechanics (82C43)

Abstract: We consider the branching and annihilating random walk $Ao2A$ and $2Ao0$ with reaction rates $sigma$ and $lambda$, respectively, and hopping rate $D$, and study the phase diagram in the $(lambda/D,sigma/D)$ plane. According to standard mean-field theory, this system is in an active state for all $sigma/D>0$, and perturbative renormalization suggests that this mean-field result is valid for $d>2$; however, nonperturbative renormalization predicts that for all $d$ there is a phase transition line to an absorbing state in the $(lambda/D,sigma/D)$ plane. We show here that a simple single-site approximation reproduces with minimal effort the nonperturbative phase diagram both qualitatively and quantitatively for all dimensions $d>2$. We expect the approach to be useful for other reaction-diffusion processes involving absorbing state transitions.

Review text

The authors study the phase diagram of a simple branching and annihilating random walk and show that for all dimensions \(d> 2\) there is a phase transition line from an active state to an absorbing state in the \((\lambda D,\sigma/D)\) plane with the creation and annihilation rates \(\sigma\) and \(\lambda\), respectively, and the hopping rate \(D\) between adjacent sites. They use a simple single-site approximation, where diffusion steps only take place to empty sites. The authors expect this method to be applicable to other reaction-diffusion processes with absorbing state phase transitions, too.

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