Published August 8, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Critical exponents of correlated percolation of sites not visited by a random walk

  • 1. The Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
  • 2. School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel

Description

We consider a d-dimensional correlated percolation problem of sites not visited by a random walk on a hypercubic lattice Ld for d=3, 4, and 5. The length of the random walk is N=uLd. Close to the critical value u=uc, many geometrical properties of the problem can be described as powers (critical exponents) of ucu, such as β, which controls the strength of the spanning cluster, and γ, which characterizes the behavior of the mean finite cluster size S. We show that at uc the ratio between the mean mass of the largest cluster M1 and the mass of the second largest cluster M2 is independent of L and can be used to find uc. We calculate β from the L dependence of M1 and M2, and γ from the finite size scaling of S. The resulting exponent β remains close to 1 in all dimensions. The exponent γ decreases from 3.9 in d=3 to 1.9 in d=4 and 1.3 in d=5 towards γ=1 expected in d=6, which is close to γ=4/(d2).

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review E
Journal Volume
110
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
8 pgs.
ISSN
1089-3787

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Subject category
S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
CONTINUED FRACTIONS; CONTROL; GRAPH THEORY; LENGTH; LIMIT CYCLE; MASS; MOMENTS METHOD; RANDOMNESS; SCALING; SCALING LAWS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS
Descriptors DEC
ATTRACTORS; CALCULATION METHODS; DIMENSIONS; MATHEMATICS; MECHANICS

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