High-Precision Simulations of the Parity Conserving Directed Percolation Universality Class in 1+1 Dimensions

Abstract: Next to the directed percolation (DP) universality class, parity conserving directed percolation (pcDP; also called parity conserving branching annihilating random walks, pcBARW) is the second-most important model with an absorbing state transition. Its distinction from ordinary DP is that particle number is conserved modulo 2, which means in 1 dimension of space that there are two degenerate vacuum (absorbing) states. Particles can be interpreted as domain walls between them, and there are two distinct sectors in systems with a finite initial number of particles: Realizations with even and odd particle numbers show different scaling behaviors. An intriguing feature of pcDP it is that some of its critical exponents seem to be very simple rational numbers. The most prominent is the one describing the average number of particles (or active sites) in the even sector, which is asymptotically constant. In contrast, the dynamical critical exponent (which is the same in both sectors) seems not close to any simple rational. Finally, the order parameter exponent (which is also the same in both sectors) is, according to the most precise previous simulations, $β= 1.020(5)$, and thus very close but not really compatible with a simple rational. We present high statistics simulations which clarifies this situation, and which indicate several other intriguing properties of pcPD clusters. In particular, we find $β= 1.000$ with the error in the next digit.