Field-theoretic analysis of dynamic isotropic percolation: Three-loop approximation
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Michal Hnatič1,2,3, Matej Kecer3, Mikhail V Kompaniets1,4
1Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Bogolyubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, 141980 Dubna, Russian Federation.
Abstract:
The general epidemic process is a paradigmatic model in nonequilibrium statistical physics displaying a continuous phase transition between active and absorbing states. The dynamic isotropic percolation universality class captures its universal properties, which we aim to quantitatively study by means of the field-theoretic formulation of the model augmented with a perturbative renormalization-group analysis. The main purpose of this work consists in determining the critical dynamic exponent z to the three-loop approximation. This allows us to finalize the quantitative description of the dynamic isotropic percolation class to this order of perturbation theory. The calculations are performed within the dimensional regularization with the minimal subtraction scheme, and actual perturbative expansions are carried out in a formally small parameter ɛ, where ɛ=6-d is a deviation from the upper critical dimension d_{c}=6.
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