Critical behavior of an interacting monomer-dimer model

Abstract

We study a monomer-dimer model with repulsive interactions between the same species in one dimension. With infinitely strong interactions the model exhibits a continuous transition from a reactive phase to an inactive phase with two equivalent absorbing states. Monte Carlo simulations show that the critical behavior is different from the conventional directed percolation universality class but seems to be consistent with that of the models with the mass conservation of modulo 2.