Single-site approximation for reaction-diffusion processes

Details Single-site approximation for reaction-diffusion processes Single-site approximation for reaction-diffusion processes

2006-05-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0605254v2

J. Stat. Phys. 125, (2006) 513-527

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

15 pages, 2 figures, published version

Scientific paper

10.1007/s10955-006-9206-8

We consider the branching and annihilating random walk $A\to 2A$ and $2A\to 0$ with reaction rates $\sigma$ and $\lambda$, respectively, and hopping rate $D$, and study the phase diagram in the $(\lambda/D,\sigma/D)$ plane. According to standard mean-field theory, this system is in an active state for all $\sigma/D>0$, and perturbative renormalization suggests that this mean-field result is valid for $d >2$; however, nonperturbative renormalization predicts that for all $d$ there is a phase transition line to an absorbing state in the $(\lambda/D,\sigma/D)$ plane. We show here that a simple single-site approximation reproduces with minimal effort the nonperturbative phase diagram both qualitatively and quantitatively for all dimensions $d>2$. We expect the approach to be useful for other reaction-diffusion processes involving absorbing state transitions.

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