Morphological transition between diffusion-limited and ballistic aggregation growth patterns

Details Morphological transition between diffusion-limited and ballistic aggregation growth patterns Morphological transition between diffusion-limited and ballistic aggregation growth patterns

2005-04-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0504526v2

Phys. Rev. E 71, 051402 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

7 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.71.051402

In this work, the transition between diffusion-limited and ballistic aggregation models was revisited using a model in which biased random walks simulate the particle trajectories. The bias is controlled by a parameter $\lambda$, which assumes the value $\lambda=0$ (1) for ballistic (diffusion-limited) aggregation model. Patterns growing from a single seed were considered. In order to simulate large clusters, a new efficient algorithm was developed. For $\lambda \ne 0$, the patterns are fractal on the small length scales, but homogeneous on the large ones. We evaluated the mean density of particles $\bar{\rho}$ in the region defined by a circle of radius $r$ centered at the initial seed. As a function of $r$, $\bar{\rho}$ reaches the asymptotic value $\rho_0(\lambda)$ following a power law $\bar{\rho}=\rho_0+Ar^{-\gamma}$ with a universal exponent $\gamma=0.46(2)$, independent of $\lambda$. The asymptotic value has the behavior $\rho_0\sim|1-\lambda|^\beta$, where $\beta= 0.26(1)$. The characteristic crossover length that determines the transition from DLA- to BA-like scaling regimes is given by $\xi\sim|1-\lambda|^{-\nu}$, where $\nu=0.61(1)$, while the cluster mass at the crossover follows a power law $M_\xi\sim|1 -\lambda|^{-\alpha}$, where $\alpha=0.97(2)$. We deduce the scaling relations $\beta=\n u\gamma$ and $\beta=2\nu-\alpha$ between these exponents.

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