title: Comparing the influence of distinct kinds of temporal disorder in a low-dimensional absorbing transition model.
abstract: Recently it was stated that temporal disorder constitutes a relevant perturbation in absorbing phase transitions for all dimensions. However, its effect on systems other than the standard contact process (CP), its competition with other ingredients (e.g., particle diffusion), and other kinds of disorder (besides the standard types) are unknown. In order to shed some light on the above-mentioned points, we investigate a variant of the usual CP, namely, the triplet annihilation model, in which the competition between triplet annihilation and single particle diffusion leads to an unusual phase diagram behavior, with reentrant shape and endless activity for sufficiently large diffusion rates. Two kinds of time-dependent disorder have been considered. In the former, it is introduced in the creation-annihilation parameters (as commonly considered in recent studies), whereas in the latter, the diffusion rate D is allowed to be time dependent. In all cases, the disorder follows a uniform distribution with fixed mean and width σ. Two values of σ have been considered in order to exemplify the regime of "weaker" and "stronger" temporal disorder strengths. Our results show that in the former approach, the disorder suppresses the reentrant phase diagram with a critical behavior deviating from the directed percolation (DP) universality class in the regime of low diffusion rates, while they strongly suggest that the DP class is recovered for larger hopping rates. An opposite scenario is found in the latter disorder approach, with a substantial increase of reentrant shape and the maximum diffusion, in which the reentrant shape also displays a critical behavior consistent with the DP universality class (in similarity with the pure model). In order to compare with very recent claims, the results from taking a bimodal distribution and critical behavior in the limit of strong disorder are presented. Also, the results derived from the mean-field theory are performed, presenting partial agreement with numerical results. Lastly, a comparison with the diffusive disordered CP is undertaken.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo-SP 05314-970, Brazil.
authors.forename: C M D
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Solano
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física e Matemática, CAP, Universidade Federal de São João del Rei, Ouro Branco-MG 36420-000, Brazil.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo-SP 05314-970, Brazil.
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Fiore