https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2006-00246-2
Revisiting the nonequilibrium phase transition of the triplet-creation model
Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 369, 13560-970 São Carlos, SP, Brazil
Corresponding author: a fontanari@ifsc.usp.br
Received:
28
February
2006
Revised:
18
May
2006
Published online:
22
June
2006
The nonequilibrium phase transition in the triplet-creation model is investigated using critical spreading and the conservative diffusive contact process. The results support the claim that at high enough diffusion the phase transition becomes discontinuous. As the diffusion probability increases the critical exponents change continuously from the ordinary directed percolation (DP) class to the compact directed percolation (CDP). The fractal dimension of the critical cluster, however, switches abruptly between those two universality classes. Strong crossover effects in both methods make it difficult, if not impossible, to establish the exact location of the tricritical point.
PACS: 05.70.Ln – Nonequilibrium and irreversible thermodynamics / 87.10.+e – General theory and mathematical aspects / 89.75.Fb – Structures and organization in complex systems
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