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Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Statistical Physics
  • Complex Systems

Background:

  • Epidemic models often simplify population interactions and disease history tracking.
  • Understanding critical phenomena in epidemic spread is crucial for predicting disease dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the critical behavior of a novel epidemic model with coupled critical densities.
  • To determine the conditions for an active stationary state in the simulated population.
  • To classify the model's universality class.

Main Methods:

  • Simulating epidemic propagation on a lattice that records disease history.
  • Determining the critical density for system activation.
  • Performing scaling analysis to identify critical exponents and correlation lengths.

Main Results:

  • The model exhibits critical behavior with a distinct active stationary state.
  • Scaling analysis reveals specific order parameter, correlation length, and relaxation exponents.
  • The model does not fit the standard directed percolation universality class.

Conclusions:

  • The investigated model represents a new universality class: directed percolation with diffusive and conserved fields.
  • This finding advances the understanding of epidemic dynamics in systems with memory effects.
  • The model provides a framework for studying complex disease propagation patterns.