Critical Dynamics of the Contact Process with Quenched Disorder

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1996-04-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9604148v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

11 pages, REVTeX, four figures available on request

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.54.R3090

We study critical spreading dynamics in the two-dimensional contact process (CP) with quenched disorder in the form of random dilution. In the pure model, spreading from a single particle at the critical point $\lambda_c$ is characterized by the critical exponents of directed percolation: in $2+1$ dimensions, $\delta = 0.46$, $\eta = 0.214$, and $z = 1.13$. Disorder causes a dramatic change in the critical exponents, to $\delta \simeq 0.60$, $\eta \simeq -0.42$, and $z \simeq 0.24$. These exponents govern spreading following a long crossover period. The usual hyperscaling relation, $4 \delta + 2 \eta = d z$, is violated. Our results support the conjecture by Bramson, Durrett, and Schonmann [Ann. Prob. {\bf 19}, 960 (1991)], that in two or more dimensions the disordered CP has only a single phase transition.

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