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Random resistor-diode networks and the crossover from isotropic to directed percolation
1Institut fur Theoretische Physik III, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat, 40225 Dusseldorf, Germany.
Abstract:
By employing the methods of renormalized field theory, we show that the percolation behavior of random resistor-diode networks near the multicritical line belongs to the universality class of isotropic percolation. We construct a mesoscopic model from the general epidemic process by including a relevant isotropy-breaking perturbation. We present a two-loop calculation of the crossover exponent straight phi. Upon blending the varepsilon-expansion result with the exact value straight phi=1 for one dimension by a rational approximation, we obtain straight phi=1.29+/-0.05 for two dimensions. This value is in agreement with the recent simulations of a two-dimensional random diode network by Inui, et al. [Phys. Rev. E 59, 6513 (1999)], who found an order parameter exponent beta different from those of isotropic and directed percolation. Furthermore, we reconsider the theory of the full crossover from isotropic to directed percolation by Frey, Tauber, and Schwabl [Europhys. Lett. 26, 413 (1994); Phys. Rev. E 49, 5058 (1994)], and clear up some minor shortcomings.
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