Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2001-01-10
Phys. Rev. E 64, 016107 (2001)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
RevTex, 19 pages including 11 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.64.016107
To study the effect of quenched disorder in a class of reaction-diffusion systems, we introduce a conserved mass model of diffusion and aggregation in which the mass moves as a whole to a nearest neighbour on most sites while it fragments off as a single monomer (i.e. chips off) from certain fixed sites. Once the mass leaves any site, it coalesces with the mass present on its neighbour. We study in detail the effect of a \emph{single} chipping site on the steady state in arbitrary dimensions, with and without bias. In the thermodynamic limit, the system can exist in one of the following phases -- (a) Pinned Aggregate (PA) phase in which an infinite aggregate (with mass proportional to the volume of the system) appears with probability one at the chipping site but not in the bulk. (b) Unpinned Aggregate (UA) phase in which $\emph{both}$ the chipping site and the bulk can support an infinite aggregate simultaneously. (c) Non Aggregate (NA) phase in which there is no infinite cluster. Our analytical and numerical studies show that the system exists in the UA phase in all cases except in 1d with bias. In the latter case, there is a phase transition from the NA phase to the PA phase as density is increased. A variant of the above aggregation model is also considered in which total particle number is conserved and chipping occurs at a fixed site, but the particles do not interact with each other at other sites. This model is solved exactly by mapping it to a Zero Range Process. With increasing density, it exhibits a phase transition from the NA phase to the PA phase in all dimensions, irrespective of bias. Finally, we discuss the likely behaviour of the system in the presence of extensive disorder.
Barma Mustansir
Jain Kavita
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