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Su-Chan Park

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arXiv2015

Order-disorder transition in the two dimensional interacting monomer-dimer model: Ising criticality

We study the order-disorder transition of the two dimensional interacting monomer-dimer model (IMD) which has two symmetric absorbing states. To be self-contained, we first estimate numerically the dynamic exponent $z$ of the two dimensional Ising model. From the relaxation dynamics of the magnetization at the critical point, we obtain $β/(νz) = 0.057~650(12)$, or $z = 2.168 26(45)$, where $β= \frac{1}{8}$ and $ν=1$ are exactly known exponents. We, then, compare the critical relaxation of the order parameter at the transition point of the IMD with that of the Ising model. We found that the critical relaxation exponent $β/(νz)$ is in good agreement with the Ising model, unlike the recent claim by Nam et al [JSTAT {\bf (2014)}, P08011]. We also claim that the Binder cumulant is not an efficient quantity to locate the order-disorder transition point of the model with two symmetric absorbing states.

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arXiv2015

Phase transition in random adaptive walks on correlated fitness landscapes

We study biological evolution on a random fitness landscape where correlations are introduced through a linear fitness gradient of strength $c$. When selection is strong and mutations rare the dynamics is a directed uphill walk that terminates at a local fitness maximum. We analytically calculate the dependence of the walk length on the genome size $L$. When the distribution of the random fitness component has an exponential tail we find a phase transition of the walk length $D$ between a phase at small $c$ where walks are short $(D \sim \ln L)$ and a phase at large $c$ where walks are long $(D \sim L)$. For all other distributions only a single phase exists for any $c > 0$. The considered process is equivalent to a zero temperature Metropolis dynamics for the random energy model in an external magnetic field, thus also providing insight into the aging dynamics of spin glasses.

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arXiv2014

Critical decay exponent of the pair contact process with diffusion

We investigate the one-dimensional pair contact process with diffusion (PCPD) by extensive Monte Carlo simulations, mainly focusing on the critical density decay exponent $δ$. To obtain an accurate estimate of $δ$, we first find the strength of corrections to scaling using the recently introduced method [S.-C. Park. J. Korean Phys. Soc. {\bf 62}, 469 (2013)]. For small diffusion rate ($d\le 0.5$), the leading corrections-to-scaling term is found to be $\sim t^{-0.15}$, whereas for large diffusion rate ($d=0.95$) it is found to be $\sim t^{-0.5}$. After finding the strength of corrections to scaling, effective exponents are systematically analyzed to conclude that the value of critical decay exponent $δ$ is $0.173(3)$ irrespective of $d$. This value should be compared with the critical decay exponent of the directed percolation, 0.1595. In addition, we study two types of crossover. At $d=0$, the phase boundary is discontinuous and the crossover from the pair contact process to the PCPD is found to be described by the crossover exponent $ϕ= 2.6(1)$. We claim that the discontinuity of the phase boundary cannot be consistent with the theoretical argument supporting the hypothesis that the PCPD should belong to the DP. At $d=1$, the crossover from the mean field PCPD to the PCPD is described by $ϕ= 2$ which is argued to be exact.

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arXiv2014

Block renormalization study on the nonequilibrium chiral Ising model

We present a numerical study on the ordering dynamics of a one-dimensional nonequilibrium Ising spin system with chirality. This system is characterized by a direction-dependent spin update rule. Pairs of $+-$ spins can flip to $++$ or $--$ with probability $(1-u)$ or to $-+$ with probability $u$ while $-+$ pairs are frozen. The system was found to evolve into the ferromagnetic ordered state at any $u<1$ exhibiting the power-law scaling of the characteristic length scale $ξ\sim t^{1/z}$ and the domain wall density $ρ\sim t^{-δ}$. The scaling exponents $z$ and $δ$ were found to vary continuously with the parameter $u$. In order to establish the anomalous power-law scaling firmly, we perform the block spin renormalization analysis proposed by Basu and Hinrichsen [U. Basu and H. Hinrichsen, J. Stat. Mech. (2011) P11023]. Domain walls of $b$ sites are coarse-grained into a block spin $σ^b$, and the relative frequencies of two-block patterns $σ^b_1 σ^b_2$ are measured in the $b\to\infty$ and $t\to\infty$ limit. These indices are expected to be universal. By performing extensive Monte Carlo simulations, we find that the indices also vary continuously with $u$ and that their values are consistent with the scaling exponents found in the previous study. This study serves as another evidence for the claim that the nonequilibrium chiral Ising model displays the power-law scaling behavior with continuously varying exponents.

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arXiv2014

High-precision Estimate of the Critical Exponents for the Directed Ising Universality Class

With extensive Monte Carlo simulations, we present high-precision estimates of the critical exponents of branching annihilating random walks with two offspring, a prototypical model of the directed Ising universality class in one dimension. To estimate the exponents accurately, we propose a systematic method to find corrections to scaling whose leading behavior is supposed to take the form $t^{-χ}$ in the long-time limit at the critical point. Our study shows that $χ\approx 0.75$ for the number of particles in defect simulations and $χ\approx 0.5$ for other measured quantities, which should be compared with the widely used value of $χ= 1$. Using $χ$ so obtained, we analyze the effective exponents to find that $β/ν_\| = 0.2872(2)$, $z = 1.7415(5)$, $η= 0.0000(2)$, and accordingly, $β/ν_\perp = 0.5000(6)$. Our numerical results for $β/ν_\|$ and $z$ are clearly different from the conjectured rational numbers $β/ν_\| = \frac{2}{7} \approx 0.2857$, $z = \frac{7}{4}= 1.75$ by Jensen [Phys. Rev. E, {\bf 50}, 3623 (1994)]. Our result for $β/ν_\perp$, however, is consistent with $\frac{1}{2}$, which is believed to be exact.

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arXiv2013

Rate of adaptation in sexuals and asexuals: A solvable model of the Fisher-Muller effect

The adaptation of large asexual populations is hampered by the competition between independently arising beneficial mutations in different individuals, which is known as clonal interference. Fisher and Muller proposed that recombination provides an evolutionary advantage in large populations by alleviating this competition. Based on recent progress in quantifying the speed of adaptation in asexual populations undergoing clonal interference, we present a detailed analysis of the Fisher-Muller mechanism for a model genome consisting of two loci with an infinite number of beneficial alleles each and multiplicative fitness effects. We solve the infinite population dynamics exactly and show that, for a particular, natural mutation scheme, the speed of adaptation in sexuals is twice as large as in asexuals. Guided by the infinite population result and by previous work on asexual adaptation, we postulate an expression for the speed of adaptation in finite sexual populations that agrees with numerical simulations over a wide range of population sizes and recombination rates. The ratio of the sexual to asexual adaptation speed is a function of population size that increases in the clonal interference regime and approaches 2 for extremely large populations. The simulations also show that the imbalance between the numbers of accumulated mutations at the two loci is strongly suppressed even by a small amount of recombination. The generalization of the model to an arbitrary number $L$ of loci is briefly discussed. If each offspring samples the alleles at each locus from the gene pool of the whole population rather than from two parents, the ratio of the sexual to asexual adaptation speed is approximately equal to $L$ in large populations. A possible realization of this scenario is the reassortment of genetic material in RNA viruses with $L$ genomic segments.

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arXiv2012

Coarsening Dynamics of Nonequilibrium Chiral Ising Models

We investigate a nonequilibrium coarsening dynamics of a one-dimensional Ising spin system with chirality. Only spins at domain boundaries are updated so that the model undergoes a coarsening to either of equivalent absorbing states with all spins + or -. Chirality is imposed by assigning different transition rates to events at down (+-) kinks and up (-+) kinks. The coarsening is characterized by power-law scalings of the kink density $ρ\sim t^{-δ}$ and the characteristic length scale $ξ\sim t^{1/z}$ with time $t$. Surprisingly the scaling exponents vary continuously with model parameters, which is not the case for systems without chirality. These results are obtained from extensive Monte Carlo simulations and spectral analyses of the time evolution operator. Our study uncovers the novel universality class of the coarsening dynamics with chirality.

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arXiv2012

Order-disorder transition in a model with two symmetric absorbing states

We study a model of two-dimensional interacting monomers which has two symmetric absorbing states and exhibits two kinds of phase transition; one is an order-disorder transition and the other is an absorbing phase transition. Our focus is around the order-disorder transition, and we investigate whether this transition is described by the critical exponents of the two-dimensional Ising model. By analyzing the relaxation dynamics of "staggered magnetization," the finite-size scaling, and the behavior of the magnetization in the presence of a symmetry-breaking field, we show that this model should belong to the Ising universality class. Our results along with the universality hypothesis support the idea that the order-disorder transition in two-dimensional models with two symmetric absorbing states is of the Ising universality class, contrary to the recent claim [K. Nam et al., J. Stat. Mech.: Theory Exp. (2011) L06001]. Furthermore, we illustrate that the Binder cumulant could be a misleading guide to the critical point in these systems.

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arXiv2011

Evolutionary advantage of small populations on complex fitness landscapes

Background: Recent experimental and theoretical studies have shown that small asexual populations evolving on complex fitness landscapes may achieve a higher fitness than large ones due to the increased heterogeneity of adaptive trajectories. Here we introduce a class of haploid three-locus fitness landscapes that allows to investigate this scenario in a precise and quantitative way. Results: Our main result derived analytically shows how the probability of choosing the path of largest initial fitness increase grows with the population size. This makes large populations more likely to get trapped at local fitness peaks and implies an advantage of small populations at intermediate time scales. The range of population sizes where this effect is operative coincides with the onset of clonal interference. Additional studies using ensembles of random fitness landscapes show that the results achieved for a particular choice of three-locus landscape parameters are robust and also persist as the number of loci increases. Conclusions: Our study indicates that an advantage for small populations is likely whenever the fitness landscape contains local maxima. The advantage appears at intermediate time scales, which are long enough for trapping at local fitness maxima to have occurred but too short for peak escape by the creation of multiple mutants.

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arXiv2011

Critical dynamics of nonconserved $N$-vector model with anisotropic nonequilibrium perturbations

We study dynamic field theories for nonconserving $N$-vector models that are subject to spatial-anisotropic bias perturbations. We first investigate the conditions under which these field theories can have a single length scale. When N=2 or $N \ge 4$, it turns out that there are no such field theories, and, hence, the corresponding models are pushed by the bias into the Ising class. We further construct nontrivial field theories for N=3 case with certain bias perturbations and analyze the renormalization-group flow equations. We find that the three-component systems can exhibit rich critical behavior belonging to two different universality classes.

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arXiv2010

Bistability in two-locus models with selection, mutation, and recombination

The evolutionary effect of recombination depends crucially on the epistatic interactions between linked loci. A paradigmatic case where recombination is known to be strongly disadvantageous is a two-locus fitness landscape dis- playing reciprocal sign epistasis with two fitness peaks of unequal height. Focusing on the occurrence of bistability in the equilibrium solutions, we consider here the deterministic, haploid two-locus model with reversible mu- tations, selection and recombination. We find analytic formulae for the criti- cal recombination probability rc above which two stable stationary solutions appear which are localized on each of the two fitness peaks. We also derive the stationary genotype frequencies in various parameter regimes. When the recombination rate is close to rc and the fitness difference between the two peaks is small, we obtain a compact description in terms of a cubic polyno- mial which is analogous to the Landau theory of physical phase transitions.

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arXiv2009

Absence of the discontinuous transition in the one-dimensional triplet creation model

Although Hinrichsen in his unpublished work theoretically rebutted the possibility of the discontinuous transition in one-dimensional nonequilibrium systems unless there are additional conservation laws, long-range interactions, macroscopic currents, or special boundary conditions, we have recently observed the resurrection of the claim that the triplet creation model (TC) introduced by Dickman and Tomé [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 44}, 4833 (1991)] would show the discontinuous transition. By extensive simulations, however, we find that the one-dimensional TC does belong to the directed percolation universality class even for larger diffusion constant than the suggested tricritical point in the literature. Furthermore, we find that the phase boundary is well described by the crossover from the mean field to the directed percolation, which supports the claim that the one-dimensional TC does not exhibit a discontinuous transition.

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arXiv2009

The speed of evolution in large asexual populations

We consider an asexual biological population of constant size $N$ evolving in discrete time under the influence of selection and mutation. Beneficial mutations appear at rate $U$ and their selective effects $s$ are drawn from a distribution $g(s)$. After introducing the required models and concepts of mathematical population genetics, we review different approaches to computing the speed of logarithmic fitness increase as a function of $N$, $U$ and $g(s)$. We present an exact solution of the infinite population size limit and provide an estimate of the population size beyond which it is valid. We then discuss approximate approaches to the finite population problem, distinguishing between the case of a single selection coefficient, $g(s) = δ(s - s_b)$, and a continuous distribution of selection coefficients. Analytic estimates for the speed are compared to numerical simulations up to population sizes of order $10^{300}$.

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arXiv2009

Crossover from the parity-conserving pair contact process with diffusion to other universality classes

The pair contact process with diffusion (PCPD) with modulo 2 conservation (\pcpdt) [$2A\to 4A$, $2A\to 0$] is studied in one dimension, focused on the crossover to other well established universality classes: the directed Ising (DI) and the directed percolation (DP). First, we show that the \pcpdt shares the critical behaviors with the PCPD, both with and without directional bias. Second, the crossover from the \pcpdt to the DI is studied by including a parity-conserving single-particle process ($A \to 3A$). We find the crossover exponent $1/ϕ_1 = 0.57(3)$, which is argued to be identical to that of the PCPD-to-DP crossover by adding $A \to 2A$. This suggests that the PCPD universality class has a well defined fixed point distinct from the DP. Third, we study the crossover from a hybrid-type reaction-diffusion process belonging to the DP [$3A\to 5A$, $2A\to 0$] to the DI by adding $A \to 3A$. We find $1/ϕ_2 = 0.73(4)$ for the DP-to-DI crossover. The inequality of $ϕ_1$ and $ϕ_2$ further supports the non-DP nature of the PCPD scaling. Finally, we introduce a symmetry-breaking field in the dual spin language to study the crossover from the \pcpdt to the DP. We find $1/ϕ_3 = 1.23(10)$, which is associated with a new independent route from the PCPD to the DP.

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arXiv2009

Reentrant phase transition in a predator-prey model

We numerically investigate the six-species predator-prey game in complex networks as well as in $d$-dimensional hypercubic lattices with $d=1,2,..., 6$. The interaction topology of the six species contains two loops, each of which is composed of cyclically predating three species. As the mutation rate $P$ is lowered below the well-defined phase transition point, the $Z_2$ symmetry related with the interchange of the two loops is spontaneously broken, and it has been known that the system develops the defensive alliance in which three cyclically predating species defend each other against the invasion of other species. In the small-world network structure characterized by the rewiring probability $α$, the phase diagram shows the reentrant behavior as $α$ is varied, indicating a twofold role of the shortcuts. In $d$-dimensional regular hypercubic lattices, the system also exhibits the reentrant phase transition as $d$ is increased. We identify universality class of the phase transition and discuss the proper mean-field limit of the system.

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arXiv2008

Three different routes from the directed Ising to the directed percolation class

Scaling nature of absorbing critical phenomena is well understood for the directed percolation (DP) and the directed Ising (DI) systems. However, a full analysis of the crossover behavior is still lacking, which is of our interest in this study. There are three different routes from the DI to the DP classes by introducing a symmetry breaking field (SB), breaking a modulo 2 conservation (CB), or making channels connecting two equivalent absorbing states (CC). Each route can be characterized by a crossover exponent, which is found numerically as $ϕ=2.1\pm 0.1$ (SB), $4.6\pm 0.2$ (CB), and $2.9\pm 0.1$ (CC), respectively. The difference between the SB and CB crossover can be understood easily in the domain wall language, while the CC crossover involves an additional critical singularity in the auxiliary field density with the memory effect to identify itself independent.

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arXiv2008

Exploring the effect of sex on an empirical fitness landscape

The nature of epistasis has important consequences for the evolutionary significance of sex and recombination. Recent efforts to find negative epistasis as source of negative linkage disequilibrium and associated long-term sex advantage have yielded little support. Sign epistasis, where the sign of the fitness effects of alleles varies across genetic backgrounds, is responsible for ruggedness of the fitness landscape with implications for the evolution of sex that have been largely unexplored. Here, we describe fitness landscapes for two sets of strains of the asexual fungus \emph{Aspergillus niger} involving all combinations of five mutations. We find that $\sim 30$% of the single-mutation fitness effects are positive despite their negative effect in the wild-type strain, and that several local fitness maxima and minima are present. We then compare adaptation of sexual and asexual populations on these empirical fitness landscapes using simulations. The results show a general disadvantage of sex on these rugged landscapes, caused by the break down by recombination of genotypes escaping from local peaks. Sex facilitates escape from a local peak only for some parameter values on one landscape, indicating its dependence on the landscape's topography. We discuss possible reasons for the discrepancy between our results and the reports of faster adaptation of sexual populations.

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