Entropy governed by the absorbing state of directed percolation

Kenji Harada, Naoki Kawashima

Published 2019-02-27Version 1

We investigate the informational aspect of (1+1)-dimensional directed percolation(DP), a canonical model of a non-equilibrium continuous transition to a phase dominated by a single special state called the "absorbing" state. Using a tensor network scheme, we numerically calculate the time evolution of state probability distribution of DP. We find a universal relaxation of Renyi entropy at the absorbing phase transition point and a new singularity in the active phase where the second-order Renyi entropy has a cusp and the dynamical behavior of entanglement entropy changes from asymptotically-complete disentanglement to finite entanglement. We confirm that the absorbing state, though its occurrence is exponentially rare in the active phase, is responsible for these phenomena. This interpretation provides us with a unified understanding of time-evolution of the Renyi entropy at the critical point as well as in the active phase.