Quasi-stationary simulation of the contact process
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چکیده
We review a recently devised Monte Carlo simulation method for the direct study of quasi-stationary properties of stochastic processes with an absorbing state. The method is used to determine the static correlation function and the interparticle gap-length distribution in the critical one-dimensional contact process. We also find evidence for power-law decay of the interparticle distance distribution in the twoparticle subspace. †electronic address: [email protected] ∗electronic address: [email protected]
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