title: Effects of excluded volume interaction on diffusion-reaction processes in crowded environments.
abstract: In nonequilibrium phase transitions of reaction-diffusion processes, the irrelevance of excluded volume interaction for the critical properties generally has been accepted due to the rare probability of multiple occupancy at criticality. Moreover, this belief is common sense in scale-free (SF) networks, which correspond to infinite dimensional irregular structures. However, the conventional belief is not satisfied in crowded environments in which the total number of particles is preserved in time. In this paper, we show, by investigating a typical process for epidemic spreading in crowded environments, that excluded volume interaction indeed changes critical behaviors in one dimension and surprisingly even mean-field behaviors in SF networks.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Research Institute for Basic Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Korea.
authors.forename: Sungchul
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kwon
authors.forename: Yup
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kim