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Finite-size effects and percolation properties of Poisson geometries

Statistical Mechanics 2016-07-25 v2

Abstract

Random tessellations of the space represent a class of prototype models of heterogeneous media, which are central in several applications in physics, engineering and life sciences. In this work, we investigate the statistical properties of dd-dimensional isotropic Poisson geometries by resorting to Monte Carlo simulation, with special emphasis on the case d=3d=3. We first analyse the behaviour of the key features of these stochastic geometries as a function of the dimension dd and the linear size LL of the domain. Then, we consider the case of Poisson binary mixtures, where the polyhedra are assigned two `labels' with complementary probabilities. For this latter class of random geometries, we numerically characterize the percolation threshold, the strength of the percolating cluster and the average cluster size.

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@article{arxiv.1605.04550,
  title  = {Finite-size effects and percolation properties of Poisson geometries},
  author = {Coline Larmier and Eric Dumonteil and Fausto Malvagi and Alain Mazzolo and Andrea Zoia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.04550},
  year   = {2016}
}

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15 pages, 14 figures