Order-parameter critical exponent of absorbing phase transitions in one-dimensional systems with two symmetric absorbing states.

Abstract

Via extensive Monte Carlo simulations along with systematic analyses of corrections to scaling, we estimate the order parameter critical exponent β of absorbing phase transitions in systems with two symmetric absorbing states. The value of β was conjectured to be 13/14≈0.93 and Monte Carlo simulation studies in the literature have repeatedly reproduced values consistent with the conjecture. In this paper, we systematically estimate β by analyzing the effective exponent after finding how strong corrections to scaling are. We show that the widely accepted numerical value of β is not correct. Rather, we obtain β=1.020(5) from different models with two symmetric absorbing states.