{
  "id": "cond-mat/0110043",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2001-10-01T22:21:22.000Z",
  "updated": "2001-10-01T22:21:22.000Z",
  "title": "Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Epidemics and Sandpiles",
  "authors": [
    "Ronald Dickman"
  ],
  "comment": "10 pages; based on invited talk at StatPhys 21",
  "journal": "Physica A 306, 90 (2002)",
  "doi": "10.1016/S0378-4371(02)00488-0",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "Nonequilibrium phase transitions between an active and an absorbing state are found in models of populations, epidemics, autocatalysis, and chemical reactions on a surface. While absorbing-state phase transitions fall generically in the DP universality class, this does not preclude other universality classes, associated with a symmetry or conservation law. An interesting issue concerns the dynamic critical behavior of models with an infinite number of absorbing configurations or a long memory. Sandpile models, the principal example of self-organized criticality (SOC), also exhibit absorbing- state phase transitions, with SOC corresponding to a particular mode of forcing the system toward its critical point.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2001-10-01T22:21:22.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "nonequilibrium phase transitions",
      "dp universality class",
      "absorbing-state phase transitions fall",
      "issue concerns",
      "universality classes"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 10,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}