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Fractal to Nonfractal Phase Transition in the Dielectric Breakdown Model

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

A fast method is presented for simulating the dielectric-breakdown model using iterated conformal mappings. Numerical results for the dimension and for corrections to scaling are in good agreement with the recent RG prediction of an upper critical ηc=4\eta_c=4, at which a transition occurs between branching fractal clusters and one-dimensional nonfractal clusters.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0103312,
  title  = {Fractal to Nonfractal Phase Transition in the Dielectric Breakdown Model},
  author = {M. B. Hastings},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0103312},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 7 figures; corrections to scaling included