Continuous and discontinuous absorbing-state phase transitions on Voronoi-Delaunay random lattices

We study absorbing-state phase transitions (APTs) in two-dimensional Voronoi-Delaunay (VD) random lattices with quenched coordination disorder. Quenched randomness usually changes the criticality and destroys discontinuous transitions in low-dimensional nonequilibrium systems. We performed extensive...

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Authors: Oliveira, Marcelo M. de, Alves, Sidiney G., Ferreira, Silvio C.
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2016
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV)
Repository:LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:locus.ufv.br:123456789/18810
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.93.012110
http://www.locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/18810
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Voronoi-Delaunay
Absorbing-state phase
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Summary:We study absorbing-state phase transitions (APTs) in two-dimensional Voronoi-Delaunay (VD) random lattices with quenched coordination disorder. Quenched randomness usually changes the criticality and destroys discontinuous transitions in low-dimensional nonequilibrium systems. We performed extensive simulations of the Ziff-Gulari-Barshad model, and verified that the VD disorder does not change the nature of its discontinuous transition. Our results corroborate recent findings of Barghathi and Vojta [H. Barghathi and T. Vojta, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 120602 (2014)], stating the irrelevance of topological disorder in a class of random lattices that includes VD, and raise the interesting possibility that disorder in nonequilibrium APT may, under certain conditions, be irrelevant for the phase coexistence. We also verify that the VD disorder is irrelevant for the critical behavior of models belonging to the directed percolation and Manna universality classes.