Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2004 Jun;69(6):065103. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.065103. Epub 2004 Jun 17.

Universal behavior of the coefficients of the continuous equation in competitive growth models.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

D Muraca, L A Braunstein, R C Buceta

PMID: 15244651 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.065103

Abstract

The competitive growth models (CGM) involving only one kind of particles, are a mixture of two processes, one with probability p and the other with probability 1-p. The p dependence produce crossovers between two different regimes. We demonstrate that the coefficients of the continuous equation, describing their universality classes, are quadratic in p (or 1-p ). We show that the origin of such dependence is the existence of two different average time rates. Thus, the quadratic p dependence is a universal behavior of all the (CGM). We derive analytically the continuous equations for two CGM, in 1+1 dimensions, from the microscopic rules using a regularization procedure. We propose generalized scalings that reproduce the scaling behavior in each regime. In order to verify the analytic results and the scalings, we perform numerical integrations of the derived analytical equations. The results are in excellent agreement with those of the microscopic CGM presented here and with the proposed scalings.

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