Discontinuous Transition in a Boundary Driven Contact Process

Details Discontinuous Transition in a Boundary Driven Contact Process Discontinuous Transition in a Boundary Driven Contact Process

2010-07-16

arxiv.org/abs/1007.2773v2

J. Stat. Mech. (2010) P09008

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

14 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-5468/2010/09/P09008

The contact process is a stochastic process which exhibits a continuous, absorbing-state phase transition in the Directed Percolation (DP) universality class. In this work, we consider a contact process with a bias in conjunction with an active wall. This model exhibits waves of activity emanating from the active wall and, when the system is supercritical, propagating indefinitely as travelling (Fisher) waves. In the subcritical phase the activity is localised near the wall. We study the phase transition numerically and show that certain properties of the system, notably the wave velocity, are discontinuous across the transition. Using a modified Fisher equation to model the system we elucidate the mechanism by which the the discontinuity arises. Furthermore we establish relations between properties of the travelling wave and DP critical exponents.

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