Critical behaviour of a surface reaction model with infinitely many absorbing states

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, , Citation I Jensen 1994 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 27 L61 DOI 10.1088/0305-4470/27/3/001

0305-4470/27/3/L61

Abstract

In a recent letter, Yaldram et al.(1993) studied the critical behaviour of a simple lattice gas model of the CO-NO catalytic reaction. The model exhibits a second-order non-equilibrium phase transition from an active state into one out of infinitely many absorbing states. Estimates for the critical exponent beta suggested that the model belongs to a new universality class. The results reported in this article contradict this notion, as estimates for various critical exponents show that the model belongs to the universality class of directed percolation.

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