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Random deposition of two annihilating species in the (1+1) dimension
1Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios Ilya Prigogine, Departamento de Física, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, CONICET, Chacabuco y Pedernera, Casilla de Correo 136, 5700 San Luis, Argentina.
Abstract:
We present simulation results for the one-dimensional random deposition of two annihilating species A and B, falling with probabilities p and q (p+q=1), which then react to produce an inert product, i.e., A+B-->0. Two different annihilation rules are defined: top annihilation and nearest-neighbor annihilation (NNA), leading to distinct scaling behaviors. In particular, the values of the scaling exponents for NNA are found to be dependent on probability p, suggesting different universality classes.