Weakly disordered absorbing-state phase transitions

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2008 Sep;78(3 Pt 1):032101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.032101. Epub 2008 Sep 2.

Abstract

The effects of quenched disorder on nonequilibrium phase transitions in the directed percolation universality class are revisited. Using a strong-disorder energy-space renormalization-group method, it is shown that for any amount of disorder the critical behavior is controlled by an infinite-randomness fixed point in the same universality class of the random transverse-field Ising models.