Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
1997-01-10
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 30 (1997) 7721
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
22 pages, LaTex, 2 figures included as eps-files; submitted to J. Phys. A: Math. Gen.; considerably enlarged reincarnation
Scientific paper
10.1088/0305-4470/30/22/011
Reaction-diffusion systems which include processes of the form A+A->A or A+A->0 are characterised by the appearance of `imaginary' multiplicative noise terms in an effective Langevin-type description. However, if `real' as well as `imaginary' noise is present, then competition between the two could potentially lead to novel behaviour. We thus investigate the asymptotic properties of the following two `mixed noise' reaction-diffusion systems. The first is a combination of the annihilation and scattering processes 2A->0, 2A->2B, 2B->2A, and 2B->0. We demonstrate (to all orders in perturbation theory) that this system belongs to the same universality class as the single species annihilation reaction 2A->0. Our second system consists of competing annihilation and fission processes, 2A->0 and 2A->(n+2)A, a model which exhibits a transition between active and absorbing phases. However, this transition and the active phase are not accessible to perturbative methods, as the field theory describing these reactions is shown to be non-renormalisable. This corresponds to the fact that there is no stationary state in the active phase, where the particle density diverges at finite times. We discuss the implications of our analysis for a recent study of another active / absorbing transition in a system with multiplicative noise.
Howard Martin J.
T"auber Uwe C.
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