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Elasticity of randomly diluted honeycomb and diamond lattices with bending forces

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2016-04-08 v2

Abstract

We use numerical simulations and an effective-medium theory to study the rigidity percolation transition of the honeycomb and diamond lattices when weak bond-bending forces are included. We use a rotationally invariant bond-bending potential, which, in contrast to the Keating potential, does not involve any stretching. As a result, the bulk modulus does not depend on the bending stiffness κ\kappa. We obtain scaling functions for the behavior of some elastic moduli in the limits of small ΔP=1P\Delta \mathcal{P} = 1 - \mathcal{P}, and small δP=PPc\delta \mathcal{P} = \mathcal{P} - \mathcal{P}_c, where P\mathcal{P} is an occupation probability of each bond, and Pc\mathcal{P}_c is the critical probability at which rigidity percolation occurs. We find good quantitative agreement between effective-medium theory and simulations for both lattices for P\mathcal{P} close to one.

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@article{arxiv.1601.06127,
  title  = {Elasticity of randomly diluted honeycomb and diamond lattices with bending forces},
  author = {Danilo B. Liarte and O. Stenull and Xiaoming Mao and T. C. Lubensky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.06127},
  year   = {2016}
}

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10 pages, 9 figures