title: Disordered contact process with asymmetric spreading.
abstract: An asymmetric variant of the contact process where the activity spreads with different and independent random rates to the left and to the right is introduced. A real space renormalization scheme is formulated for the model by means of which it is shown that the local asymmetry of spreading is irrelevant on large scales if the model is globally (statistically) symmetric. Otherwise, in the presence of a global bias in either direction, the renormalization method predicts two distinct phase transitions, which are related to the spreading of activity in and against the direction of the bias. The latter is found to be described by an infinite randomness fixed point while the former is not.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, H-1525 Budapest, P.O. Box 49, Hungary. juhasz.robert@wigner.mta.hu
authors.forename: Róbert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Juhász
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004058:Diffusion; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015233:Models, Statistical; D013499:Surface Properties