Velocity of front propagation in the epidemic model $A+B\to2A$

Details Velocity of front propagation in the epidemic model $A+B\to2A$ Velocity of front propagation in the epidemic model $A+B\to2A$

2006-07-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607268v1

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Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

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We study front propagation in the irreversible epidemic model $A+B\to 2A$ in one dimension. Here, we allow the particles $A$ and $B$ to diffuse with rates $D_A$ and $D_B$, which, in general, may be different. We find analytic estimates for the front velocity by writing truncated master equation in a frame moving with the rightmost $A$ particle. The results obtained are in reasonable agreement with the simulation results and are amenable to systematic improvement. We also observe a crossover from the linear dependence of front velocity $V$ on $D_A$ for smaller values of $D_A$ to $V\propto \sqrt{D_A}$ for larger $D_A$, but numerically still significantly different from the mean field value. The deviations reflect the role of internal fluctuations which is neglected in the mean field description.

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