Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 234503 (2007) [4 pages]Directed Percolation Criticality in Turbulent Liquid CrystalsSee Also: Erratum Received 28 June 2007; published 5 December 2007 We experimentally investigate the critical behavior of a phase transition between two topologically different turbulent states of electrohydrodynamic convection in nematic liquid crystals. The statistical properties of the observed spatiotemporal intermittency regimes are carefully determined, yielding a complete set of static critical exponents in full agreement with those defining the directed percolation class in 2+1 dimensions. This constitutes the first clear and comprehensive experimental evidence of an absorbing phase transition in this prominent nonequilibrium universality class. © 2007 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.234503
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.234503
PACS:
47.52.+j, 05.70.Jk, 64.70.Md, 68.18.Jk
See AlsoErratum: Kazumasa A. Takeuchi, Masafumi Kuroda, Hugues Chaté, and Masaki Sano, Erratum: Directed Percolation Criticality in Turbulent Liquid Crystals [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 234503 (2007)], Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 089901 (2009). |
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