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Principal component analysis of absorbing state phase transitions
Cristiano Muzzi1,2, Ronald Santiago Cortes1,3, Devendra Singh Bhakuni3
1SISSA - International School for Advances Studies, via Bonomea 265, 34136 Trieste, Italy.
Physical Review. E
|February 7, 2025
Summary
Principal component analysis (PCA) effectively reveals critical properties of nonequilibrium phase transitions in lattice models. This method accurately estimates critical points and dynamical critical exponents for directed bond percolation and branching/annihilating random walks.
Area of Science:
- Statistical Mechanics
- Complex Systems
- Computational Physics
Background:
- Nonequilibrium phase transitions are crucial in various physical systems.
- Understanding critical phenomena in these systems often requires advanced analytical techniques.
- Lattice models provide simplified yet powerful frameworks for studying these transitions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the applicability of principal component analysis (PCA) for characterizing critical properties of nonequilibrium phase transitions.
- To determine if PCA can accurately estimate critical points and critical exponents in distinct universality classes.
- To explore the connection between PCA and low-rank approximations in analyzing complex system data.
Main Methods:
- Principal Component Analysis (PCA) applied to system configurations of lattice models.
- Analysis of directed bond percolation models.
- Analysis of branching and annihilating random walks with an even number of offspring.
Main Results:
- Uncentered PCA successfully identified critical properties for both studied models.
- Accurate estimations of critical points and dynamical critical exponents were obtained.
- For directed bond percolation, critical exponents for correlation length and order parameter were extracted.
Conclusions:
- PCA is a valuable tool for analyzing critical phenomena in nonequilibrium systems.
- The method provides reliable estimates for key critical parameters.
- PCA offers insights into the relationship between data analysis techniques and the study of phase transitions.
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