Eur. Phys. J. B 26, 75-79 (2002)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e20020068

Persistence distributions in a conserved lattice gas with absorbing states

Theoretische Tieftemperaturphysik, Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg, Lotharstr. 1, 47048 Duisburg, Germany

Corresponding author: ^a sven@thp.uni-duisburg.de

Received: 27 August 2001
Revised: 15 November 2001
Published online: 15 March 2002

Abstract

Extensive simulations are performed to study the persistence behavior of a conserved lattice gas model exhibiting an absorbing phase transition from an active phase into an inactive phase. Both the global and the local persistence exponents are determined in two and higher dimensions. The local persistence exponent obeys a scaling relation involving the order parameter exponent of the absorbing phase transition. Furthermore we observe that the global persistence exponent exceeds its local counterpart in all dimensions in contrast to the known persistence behavior in reversible phase transitions.