Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2010-03-08
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
9 pages, 2 tables and 6 figures
Scientific paper
By means of numerical simulations we investigate the geometric properties of loops on hypercubic lattice graphs in dimensions d=2 through 7, where edge weights are drawn from a distribution that allows for positive and negative weights. We are interested in the appearance of system-spanning loops of total negative weight. The resulting negative-weight percolation (NWP) problem is fundamentally different from conventional percolation, as we have seen in previous studies of this model for the 2d case. Here, we characterize the transition for hypercubic systems, where the aim of the present study is to get a grip on the upper critical dimension d_u of the NWP problem. For the numerical simulations we employ a mapping of the NWP model to a combinatorial optimization problem that can be solved exactly by using sophisticated matching algorithms. We characterize the loops via observables similar to those in percolation theory and perform finite-size scaling analyses, e.g. 3d hypercubic systems with side length up to L=56 sites, in order to estimate the critical properties of the NWP phenomenon. We find our numerical results consistent with an upper critical dimension d_u=6 for the NWP problem.
Apolo L.
Hartmann Alexander K.
Melchert Oliver
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