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Phase transitions and correlations in the bosonic pair contact process with diffusion: Exact results

Paessens, M., Gunter Markus Schutz

Published Jan 1, 2004• 13 citations
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The variance of the local density of the pair contact process with diffusion is investigated in a bosonic description. At the critical point of the absorbing phase transition (where the average particle number remains constant) it is shown that for a lattice dimension d > 2 the variance exhibits a phase transition: for high enough diffusion constants, it asymptotically approaches a finite value, while for low diffusion constants the variance diverges exponentially in time. This behaviour also appears in the density correlation function, implying that the correlation time is negative. Yet one has dynamical scaling with a dynamical exponent calculated to be z = 2.

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The variance of the local density of the pair contact process with diffusion is investigated in a bosonic description. At the critical point of the absorbing phase transition (where the average particle number remains constant) it is shown that for a lattice dimension d > 2 the variance exhibits a phase transition: for high enough diffusion constants, it asymptotically approaches a finite value, while for low diffusion constants the variance diverges exponentially in time. This behaviour also appears in the density correlation function, implying that the correlation time is negative. Yet one has dynamical scaling with a dynamical exponent calculated to be z = 2.
A hyperscaling relation for the critical exponents of absorbing phase transitions is tested in the bosonic pair contact process with diffusion. To this end spreading is considered, i.e. the time evolution out of an initial seed. It is shown that like in the case of spatial homogeneous initial conditions the autocorrelation function exhibits a phase transition at the critical point of the first moment. Some of the critical exponents can be determined exactly which is an unusual property of an absorbing phase transition and provides a possibility to test the hyperscaling relation. In the case of the bosonic pair contact process with diffusion three sets of exponents can be considered referring to the number of particles, number of pairs and number of active sites. It is argued that in special cases it is generally impossible to produce adequate data numerically.
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We study the pair contact process with diffusion (PCPD) using Monte Carlo simulations, and concentrate on the decay of the particle density ρ with time, near its critical point, which is assumed to follow . This model is known for its slow convergence to the asymptotic critical behavior; we therefore pay particular attention to finite-time corrections. We find that at the critical point, the ratio of ρ and the pair density ρ p converges to a constant, indicating that both densities decay with the same power law. We show that under the assumption δ 2 ≈2δ, two of the critical exponents of the PCPD model are δ = 0.165(10) and β = 0.31(4), consistent with those of the directed percolation (DP) model.
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Local scale-invariance for ageing systems without detailed balance is tested through studying the dynamical symmetries of the critical bosonic contact process and the critical bosonic pair-contact process.Their field-theoretical actions can be split into a Schrödinger-invariant term and a pure noise term. It is shown that the two-time response and correlation functions are reducible to certain multipoint response functions which depend only on the Schrödinger-invariant part of the action. For the bosonic contact process, the representation of the Schrödinger group can be derived from the free diffusion equation, whereas for the bosonic pair-contact process, a new representation of the Schrödinger group related to a non-linear Schrödinger equation with dimensionful couplings is constructed. The resulting predictions of local scale-invariance for the two-time responses and correlators are completely consistent with the exactly-known results in both models.