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Phase transition in an exactly solvable reaction-diffusion process

Statistical Mechanics 2013-10-03 v1

Abstract

We study a non-conserved one-dimensional stochastic process which involves two species of particles AA and BB. The particles diffuse asymmetrically and react in pairs as AAABAAA\emptyset\leftrightarrow AA\leftrightarrow BA \leftrightarrow A\emptyset and BBBABBB\emptyset \leftrightarrow BB \leftrightarrow AB \leftrightarrow B\emptyset. We show that the stationary state of the model can be calculated exactly by using matrix product techniques. The model exhibits a phase transition at a particular point in the phase diagram which can be related to a condensation transition in a particular zero-range process. We determine the corresponding critical exponents and provide a heuristic explanation for the unusually strong corrections to scaling seen in the vicinity of the critical point.

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@article{arxiv.1305.6711,
  title  = {Phase transition in an exactly solvable reaction-diffusion process},
  author = {Somayeh Zeraati and Farhad H. Jafarpour and Haye Hinrichsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.6711},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

10 pages, 8 color figures

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