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J. E. de Freitas

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The Strange Behavior of Critical Branched Polymers

We find that 2-dimensional (2-D) critical branched polymers with no impurities conclusively belong to the same universality class as 2-D random percolation clusters, although pure critical 3-D branched polymers do not belong to the 3-D percolation universality class. We find, moreover, that the fractal dimension of critical branched polymers in 2-D is independent of the presence of a random environment, and explore possible explanations for these strange results. We also report that when there are no impurities the critical branching probability in 3-D is bc=3.34e-4 +- 0.16e-4.

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Reply to ``Comment on `Critical behavior of a two-species reaction-diffusion problem' ''

Our recent Monte Carlo results [Phys. Rev. E 61 (2000) 6330] for the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion process A+B->2B and B->A lead to the correlation length exponent estimate nu=2.21 +/- 0.05. In a comment on our work [cond-mat/0007366] the exact value is claimed to be nu=2. We reply that the arguments advanced in the comment fail to prove the claim.

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