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Weakly disordered absorbing-state phase transitions

Statistical Mechanics 2008-09-03 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

The effects of quenched disorder on nonequilibrium phase transitions in the directed percolation universality class are revisited. Using a strong-disorder energy-space renormalization group, it is shown that for any amount of disorder the critical behavior is controlled by an infinite-randomness fixed point in the universality class of the random transverse-field Ising models. The experimental relevance of our results are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.0805.2211,
  title  = {Weakly disordered absorbing-state phase transitions},
  author = {J. A. Hoyos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.2211},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 eps figures; (v2) references and discussion on experiments added; (v3) published version, minor typos corrected, some side discussions dropped due to size constraint

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