Fragmentation of percolation clusters in general dimensions

Mookyung Cheon, Muyoung Heo, Iksoo Chang, Dietrich Stauffer

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Abstract

The scaling behavior for binary fragmentation of critical percolation clusters in general dimensions is investigated by Monte Carlo simulation as well as by exact series expansions. We obtain values of critical exponents [Formula Presented] and [Formula Presented] describing the scaling of the fragmentation rate and the distribution of cluster masses produced by binary fragmentation. Our results for [Formula Presented] and [Formula Presented] in two to nine dimensions agree with the conjectured scaling relation [Formula Presented] by Edwards and co-workers [Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 2692 (1992); Phys. Rev. A 46, 6252 (1992)], which in turn excludes the other scaling relations suggested by Gouyet (for [Formula Presented], and by Roux and Guyon [J. Phys. A 22, 3693 (1989)], where [Formula Presented] is the crossover exponent for the cluster numbers in percolation theory.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)R4733-R4736
JournalPhysical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
Volume59
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999

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