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The universality class of absorbing phase transitions with a conserved field

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We investigate the critical behavior of systems exhibiting a continuous absorbing phase transition in the presence of a conserved field coupled to the order parameter. The results obtained point out the existence of a new universality class of nonequilibrium phase transitions that characterizes a vast set of systems including conserved threshold transfer processes and stochastic sandpile models.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0004242,
  title  = {The universality class of absorbing phase transitions with a conserved field},
  author = {Michela Rossi and Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Alessandro Vespignani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0004242},
  year   = {2009}
}

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RevTeX, 4 pages, 3 EPS figures