{ "id": "1109.6567", "version": "v4", "published": "2011-09-29T15:48:10.000Z", "updated": "2012-06-08T05:15:39.000Z", "title": "Crossover from Isotropic to Directed Percolation", "authors": [ "Zongzheng Zhou", "Ji Yang", "Robert M. Ziff", "Youjin Deng" ], "comment": "8 pages, 8 figures", "journal": "Phys. Rev. E 86, 021102, 2012", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.86.021102", "categories": [ "cond-mat.stat-mech" ], "abstract": "We generalize the directed percolation (DP) model by relaxing the strict directionality of DP such that propagation can occur in either direction but with anisotropic probabilities. We denote the probabilities as $p_{\\downarrow}= p \\cdot p_d$ and $p_{\\uparrow}=p \\cdot (1-p_d)$, with $p $ representing the average occupation probability and $p_d$ controlling the anisotropy. The Leath-Alexandrowicz method is used to grow a cluster from an active seed site. We call this model with two main growth directions {\\em biased directed percolation} (BDP). Standard isotropic percolation (IP) and DP are the two limiting cases of the BDP model, corresponding to $p_d=1/2$ and $p_d=0,1$ respectively. In this work, besides IP and DP, we also consider the $1/2