arXiv:cond-mat/0004242 · Physical Review Letters

Universality Class of Absorbing Phase Transitions with a Conserved Field

Michela Rossi, Romualdo Pastor‐Satorras, Alessandro Vespignani

Published Aug 28, 2000• 219 citations

Abstract

We investigate the critical behavior of systems exhibiting a continuous absorbing phase transition in the presence of a conserved field coupled to the order parameter. The results obtained point out the existence of a new universality class of nonequilibrium phase transitions that characterizes a vast set of systems including conserved threshold transfer processes and stochastic sandpile models.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.85.1803

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