Propagation and Extinction in Branching Annihilating Random Walks

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1994-05-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9405029v1

Phys. Rev. E 50, 1843 (1994).

Physics

Condensed Matter

12 pages, plain TeX

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10.1103/PhysRevE.50.1843

We investigate the temporal evolution and spatial propagation of branching annihilating random walks in one dimension. Depending on the branching and annihilation rates, a few-particle initial state can evolve to a propagating finite density wave, or extinction may occur, in which the number of particles vanishes in the long-time limit. The number parity conserving case where 2-offspring are produced in each branching event can be solved exactly for unit reaction probability, from which qualitative features of the transition between propagation and extinction, as well as intriguing parity-specific effects are elucidated. An approximate analysis is developed to treat this transition for general BAW processes. A scaling description suggests that the critical exponents which describe the vanishing of the particle density at the transition are unrelated to those of conventional models, such as Reggeon Field Theory. P. A. C. S. Numbers: 02.50.+s, 05.40.+j, 82.20.-w

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