title: Crossovers from parity conserving to directed percolation universality.
abstract: The crossover behavior of various models exhibiting phase transition to absorbing phase with parity conserving class has been investigated by numerical simulations and cluster mean-field method. In case of models exhibiting Z_2 symmetric absorbing phases (the cellular automaton version of the nonequilibrium kinetic Ising model (NEKIMCA) and a stochastic cellular automaton invented by Grassberger, Krause, and von der Twer [J. Phys. A 17, L105 (1984)]) the introduction of an external symmetry breaking field causes a crossover to kink parity conserving models characterized by dynamical scaling of the directed percolation (DP) and the crossover exponent: 1/phi approximately equal to 0.53(2) . In the case of a branching and annihilating random walk model with an even number of offspring (dual to NEKIMCA) the introduction of spontaneous particle decay destroys the parity conservation and results in a crossover to the DP class characterized by the crossover exponent: 1/phi approximately equal to 0.205(5) . The two different kinds of crossover operators cannot be mapped onto each other and the resulting models show a diversity within the DP universality class in one dimension. These subclasses differ in cluster scaling exponents.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Géza
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Odor
authors.forename: Nóra
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Menyhárd