Power law tail in the radial growth probability distribution for DLA

Details Power law tail in the radial growth probability distribution for DLA Power law tail in the radial growth probability distribution for DLA

1993-01-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9301014v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

11 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures not included, HLRZ preprint-29/92

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/26/23/025

Using both analytic and numerical methods, we study the radial growth probability distribution $P(r,M)$ for large scale off lattice diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) clusters. If the form of $P(r,M)$ is a Gaussian, we show analytically that the width $\xi(M)$ of the distribution {\it can not} scale as the radius of gyration $R_G$ of the cluster. We generate about $1750$ clusters of masses $M$ up to $500,000$ particles, and calculate the distribution by sending $10^6$ further random walkers for each cluster. We give strong support that the calculated distribution has a power law tail in the interior ($r\sim 0$) of the cluster, and can be described by a scaling Ansatz $P(r,M) \propto {r^\alpha\over\xi}\cdot g\left( {r-r_0}\over \xi \right)$, where $g(x)$ denotes some scaling function which is centered around zero and has a width of order unity. The exponent $\alpha$ is determined to be $\approx 2$, which is now substantially smaller than values measured earlier. We show, by including the power-law tail, that the width {\it can} scale as $R_G$, if $\alpha > D_f-1$.

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