Propagation and extinction in branching annihilating random walks

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We investigate the temporal evolution and spatial propagation of branching annihilating random walks (BAWs) in one dimension. Depending on the branching and annihilation rates, a few-particle initial state can evolve to a propagating finite density wave, or an extinction may occur, in which the number of particles vanishes in the long-time limit. The number parity conserving case where two offspring are produced in each branching event can be solved exactly for a unit reaction probability, from which qualitative features of the transition between propagation and extinction, as well as intriguing parity-specific effects, are elucidated. An approximate analysis is developed to treat this transition for general BAW processes. A scaling description suggests that the critical exponents that describe the vanishing of the particle density at the transition are unrelated to those of conventional models, such as Reggeon field theory.
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