Nonequilibrium Critical Dynamics of a Three Species MonomerMonomer Model.pdfVIP

Nonequilibrium critical dynamics of a three species monomer-monomer model Kevin E. Bassler and Dana A. Browne Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (June 11, 1996; revised August 28, 1996) We study a three species monomer-monomer catalytic surface reaction model with a reactive steady state bordered by three equivalent unreactive phases where the surface is saturated with one species. The transition from the reactive to a saturated phase shows directed percolation critical behavior. Each pair of these reactive-saturated phase boundaries join at a bicritical point where the universal behavior is in the even branching annihilating random walk class. We find the crossover exponent from bicritical to critical behavior and a new exponent associated with the bicritical 6 interface dynamics. 9 9 05.70.Ln, 82.20.Mj, 82.65.Jv, 64.50.Ht 1 p e Nonequilibrium models with many degrees of freedom dynamical conservation law. If [10] the important dy- S whose dynamics violate detailed balance arise in studies namical variables in this class are defects represented by 9 of biological populations, heterogeneous catalysis, fluid the walkers in the BAWe model and the walls between dif- 1 turbulence, and elsewhere. The macroscopic behavior of ferent saturated domains in the other models, the models these models can be much richer than that of systems have “defect parity” conservation law where the number 1 in thermal