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Published on: February 22, 2018
Scaling behavior of explosive percolation on the square lattice
1Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics and Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2136, USA. rziff@umich.edu
Abstract:
Clusters generated by the product-rule growth model of Achlioptas, D'Souza, and Spencer on a two-dimensional square lattice are shown to obey qualitatively different scaling behavior than standard (random growth) percolation. The threshold with unrestricted bond placement (allowing loops) is found precisely using several different criteria based on both moments and wrapping probabilities, yielding p(c)=0.526 565 ± 0.000005, consistent with the recent result of Radicchi and Fortunato. The correlation-length exponent ν is found to be close to 1. The qualitative difference from regular percolation is shown dramatically in the behavior of the percolation probability P∞ (size of largest cluster), of the susceptibility, and of the second moment of finite clusters, where discontinuities appear at the threshold. The critical cluster-size distribution does not follow a consistent power law for the range of system sizes we study (L ≤ 8192) but may approach a power law with τ>2 for larger L .
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