Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2002-02-12
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
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Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.65.056126
The incipient infinite cluster appearing at the bond percolation threshold can be decomposed into singly-connected ``links'' and multiply-connected ``blobs.'' Here we decompose blobs into objects known in graph theory as 3-blocks. A 3-block is a graph that cannot be separated into disconnected subgraphs by cutting the graph at 2 or fewer vertices. Clusters, blobs, and 3-blocks are special cases of $k$-blocks with $k=1$, 2, and 3, respectively. We study bond percolation clusters at the percolation threshold on 2-dimensional square lattices and 3-dimensional cubic lattices and, using Monte-Carlo simulations, determine the distribution of the sizes of the 3-blocks into which the blobs are decomposed. We find that the 3-blocks have fractal dimension $d_3=1.2\pm 0.1$ in 2D and $1.15\pm 0.1$ in 3D. These fractal dimensions are significantly smaller than the fractal dimensions of the blobs, making possible more efficient calculation of percolation properties. Additionally, the closeness of the estimated values for $d_3$ in 2D and 3D is consistent with the possibility that $d_3$ is dimension independent. Generalizing the concept of the backbone, we introduce the concept of a ``$k$-bone'', which is the set of all points in a percolation system connected to $k$ disjoint terminal points (or sets of disjoint terminal points) by $k$ disjoint paths. We argue that the fractal dimension of a $k$-bone is equal to the fractal dimension of $k$-blocks, allowing us to discuss the relation between the fractal dimension of $k$-blocks and recent work on path crossing probabilities.
Paul Gerald
Stanley Eugene H.
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