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A Universal Formula for Percolation Thresholds II. Extension to Anisotropic and Aperiodic Lattices

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-10-30 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

In a recent paper, we have reported a universal power law for both site and bond percolation thresholds in any Bravais lattice with q equivalent nearest neighbors in dimension d. We now extend it to three different classes of lattices which are, respectively, anisotropic lattices whith not equivalent nearest neighbors, non-Bravais lattices with two atom unit cells, and quasicrystals. The investigation is focussed on d=2 and d=3, due to the lack of experimental data at higher dimensions. The extension to these lattices requires the substitution of q by an effective (non integer) value qeffq_{eff} in the universal law. For each out of 17 lattices which constitute our sample, we argue the existence of one qeffq_{eff} which reproduces both the site and the percolation threshold, with a deviation with respect to numerical estimates which does not exceed 0.01\mp 0.01.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9706304,
  title  = {A Universal Formula for Percolation Thresholds II. Extension to Anisotropic and Aperiodic Lattices},
  author = {Serge Galam and Alain Mauger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9706304},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, latex, 3 Figs not included