Jamming and percolation of parallel squares in single-cluster growth model

Autor: I.A. Kriuchevskyi, L.A. Bulavin, Yu.Yu. Tarasevich, N.I. Lebovka
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Condensed Matter Physics, Vol 17, Iss 3, p 33006 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1607-324X
DOI: 10.5488/CMP.17.33006
Popis: This work studies the jamming and percolation of parallel squares in a single-cluster growth model. The Leath-Alexandrowicz method was used to grow a cluster from an active seed site. The sites of a square lattice were occupied by addition of the equal size k x k squares (E-problem) or a mixture of k x k and m x m (m ≤ k) squares (M-problem). The larger k x k squares were assumed to be active (conductive) and the smaller m x m squares were assumed to be blocked (non-conductive). For equal size k x k squares (E-problem) the value of pj = 0.638 ± 0.001 was obtained for the jamming concentration in the limit of k →∞. This value was noticeably larger than that previously reported for a random sequential adsorption model, pj = 0.564 ± 0.002. It was observed that the value of percolation threshold pc (i.e., the ratio of the area of active k x k squares and the total area of k x k squares in the percolation point) increased with an increase of k. For mixture of k x k and m x m squares (M-problem), the value of pc noticeably increased with an increase of k at a fixed value of m and approached 1 at k ≥ 10 m. This reflects that percolation of larger active squares in M-problem can be effectively suppressed in the presence of smaller blocked squares.
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