Role of diffusion in branching and annihilation random walk models

Abstract

Different branching and annihilating random walk models are investigated by the cluster mean-field method and simulations in one and two dimensions. In the case of the A-->2A , 2A--> 0 model the cluster mean-field approximations show diffusion dependence in the phase diagram as was found recently by the nonperturbative renormalization group method [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 255703 (2004)]]. The same type of survey for the A-->2A , 4A--> 0 model results in a reentrant phase diagram, similar to that of the 2A-->3A , 4A--> 0 model [Phys. Rev. E 69, 036112 (2004)]]. Simulations of the A-->2A , 4A--> 0 model in one and two dimensions confirm the presence of both the directed percolation transitions at finite branching rates and the mean-field transition at zero branching rate. In two dimensions the directed percolation transition disappears for strong diffusion rates. These results disagree with the predictions of the perturbative renormalization group method.