Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2001-03-20
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
3 pages, 4 figures;slightly expanded, 2 figures added. Accepted for publishing in Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.64.224304
Recently Grassberger has shown that the correction to scaling for the conductance of a bond percolation network on a square lattice is a nonmonotonic function of the linear lattice dimension with a minimum at $L = 10$, while this anomalous behavior is not present in the site percolation networks. We perform a high precision numerical study of the bond percolation random resistor networks on the square, triangular and honeycomb lattices to further examine this result. We use the arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means to obtain the conductance and find that the qualitative behavior does not change: it is not related to the shape of the conductance distribution for small system sizes. We show that the anomaly at small L is absent on the triangular and honeycomb networks. We suggest that the nonmonotonic behavior is an artifact of approximating the continuous system for which the theory is formulated by a discrete one which can be simulated on a computer. We show that by slightly changing the definition of the linear lattice size we can eliminate the minimum at small L without significantly affecting the large L limit.
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