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Compact directed percolation with movable partial reflectors

Ronald Dickman1 and Daniel ben-Avraham2

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We study a version of compact directed percolation (CDP) in one dimension in which occupation of a site for the first time requires that a 'mine' or an antiparticle be eliminated. This process is analogous to the variant of directed percolation with a long-time memory, proposed by Grassberger et al (1997 Phys. Rev. E 55 2488) in order to understand spreading at a critical point involving an infinite number of absorbing configurations. The problem is equivalent to that of a pair of random walkers in the presence of movable partial reflectors. The walkers, which are unbiased, start one lattice spacing apart and annihilate on their first contact. Each time one of the walkers tries to visit a new site, it is reflected (with probability r) back to its previous position, while the reflector is simultaneously pushed one step away from the walker. Iteration of the discrete-time evolution equation for the probability distribution yields the survival probability S(t). We find that S(t) ~ t−δ, with δ varying continuously between 1/2 and 1.160 as the reflection probability varies between 0 and 1.


PACS

05.40.Fb Random walks and Levy flights

MSC

82B41 Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. (See also 60G50, 82C41)

60K35 Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (See also 82B43, 82C43)

Subjects

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 38 (27 September 2002)

Received 8 July 2002

Published 12 September 2002



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