Number of branches in diffusion-limited aggregates: The skeleton

Details Number of branches in diffusion-limited aggregates: The skeleton Number of branches in diffusion-limited aggregates: The skeleton

1995-05-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9505065v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

21 pages REVTEX, postscript figures separately, 'tar'ed, compressed and uuencoded - alternatively e-mail 'stefan@pmmh.espci.fr

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.53.1795

We develop the skeleton algorithm to define the number of main branches $N_b$ of diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) clusters. The skeleton algorithm provides a systematic way to remove dangling side branches of the DLA cluster and has successfully been applied to study the ramification properties of percolation. We study the skeleton of comparatively large ($\approx 10^6$ sites) off-lattice DLA clusters in two, three and four spatial dimensions. We find that initially with increasing distance from the cluster seed the number of branches increases in all dimensions. In two dimensions, the increase in the number of branches levels off at larger distances, indicating a fixed number of $N_b = 7.5\pm 1.5$ main branches of DLA. In contrast, in three and four dimensions, the skeleton continues to ramify strongly as one proceeds from the cluster center outward, and we find no indication of a constant number of main branches. Likewise, we find no indication for a fixed $N_b$ in a study of DLA on the Cayley tree. In two dimensions, we find strong corrections to scaling of logarithmic character, which can help to explain recently reported deviations from self-similar behavior.

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