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arXiv:cond-mat/0612272 · Physical Review E

Pair annihilation reaction D+D→0 in disordered media and conformal invariance

Francisco Castilho Alcaraz, V. Rittenberg

Published May 14, 2007• 6 citations
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Abstract

The raise and peel model is a stochastic model of a fluctuating interface separating a substrate covered with clusters of matter of different sizes and a rarefied gas of tiles. The stationary state is obtained when adsorption compensates the desorption of tiles. This model is generalized to an interface with defects (D) . The defects are either adjacent or separated by a cluster. If a tile hits the end of a cluster with a defect nearby, the defect hops at the other end of the cluster, changing its shape. If a tile hits two adjacent defects, the defects annihilate and are replaced by a small cluster. There are no defects in the stationary state. This model can be seen as describing the reaction D+D-->0 , in which the particles (defects) D hop at long distances, changing the medium, and annihilate. Between the hops the medium also changes (tiles hit clusters, changing their shapes). Several properties of this model are presented and some exact results are obtained using the connection of our model with a conformally invariant quantum chain.

DOI
10.1103/physreve.75.051110

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The raise and peel model is a one-dimensional nonlocal stochastic model where adsortion happens locally and desorption is nonlocal.The model depends on the single parameter u that is the ratio among the desorption and adsorption rates.At a special value of this parameter (u = 1) the model has interesting features.The spectrum is described by a conformal field theory (central charge c = 0), and its stationary probability density is related to the equilibrium distribution of a two dimensional system.The phase diagram of the model, as a function of the parameter u, has a massive phase (gapped phase) and a massless (gapless phase) whose critical exponents vary continuously with u.In this monography we study a one-parameter extension of the raise and peel model at u = 1, that depends on the additional parameter p.The new model exhibits conformal invariance for the whole range of values of its parameter p, and it is in the same universality class as the usual raise and peel model.The single difference between the models is the value of the sound velocity v s (p) which is a function of p.The methods used in this monography are the exact diagonalization of the evolution operator of the stochastic model (Hamiltonian), for small lattice sizes and Monte Carlo simulations.
Up to now the raise and peel model was the single known example of a one-dimensional stochastic process where one can observe conformal invariance. The model has one-parameter. Depending on its value one has a gapped phase, a critical point where one has conformal invariance and a gapless phase with changing values of the dynamical critical exponent zzz. In this model, adsorption is local but desorption is not. The raise and strip model presented here in which desorption is also nonlocal, has the same phase diagram. The critical exponents are different as are some physical properties of the model. Our study suggest the possible existence of a whole class of stochastic models in which one can observe conformal invariance.
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We discuss a one-dimensional model of a fluctuating interface with a dynamic exponent z=1. The events that occur are adsorption, which is local, and desorption which is nonlocal and may take place over regions of the order of the system size. In the thermodynamic limit, the time dependence of the system is given by characters of the c=0 logarithmic conformal field theory of percolation. This implies in a rigorous way, a connection between logarithmic conformal field theory and stochastic processes. The finite-size scaling behavior of the average height, interface width and other observables are obtained. The avalanches produced during desorption are analyzed and we show that the probability distribution of the avalanche sizes obeys finite-size scaling with new critical exponents.