  We study the two-dimensional contact process (CP) with quenched disorder
(DCP), and determine the static critical exponents beta and nu_perp. The
dynamic behavior is incompatible with scaling, as applied to models (such as
the pure CP) that have a continuous phase transition to an absorbing state. We
find that the survival probability (starting with all sites occupied), for a
finite-size system at critical, decays according to a power law, as does the
off-critical density autocorrelation function. Thus the critical exponent
nu_parallle, which governs the relaxation time, is undefined, since the
characteristic relaxation time is itself undefined. The logarithmic
time-dependence found in recent simulations of the critical DCP [Moreira and
Dickman, Phys. Rev. E54, R3090 (1996)] is further evidence of violation of
scaling. A simple argument based on percolation cluster statistics yields a
similar logarithmic evolution.
