Exact phase diagram of a model with aggregation and chipping.
We reexamine a simple lattice model of aggregation in which masses diffuse and coalesce upon contact with rate 1 and every nonzero mass chips off a single unit of mass and adds it to a randomly chosen neighbor with rate w. The dynamics conserves the average mass density rho and in the stationary state the system undergoes a nonequilibrium phase transition in the (rho-w) plane across a critical line rho(c)(w). In this paper, we show analytically that in arbitrary spatial dimensions rho(c)(w)=sqrt[w+1]-1 exactly and hence, remarkably, is independent of dimension. We also provide direct and indirect numerical evidence that strongly suggests that the mean field asymptotic results for the single site mass distribution function and the associated critical exponents are superuniversal, i.e., independent of dimension.
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Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400005, India.
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