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Percolation Critical Probability of Aperiodic Smith Hat tile(1, $\sqrt3$)

Statistical Mechanics 2026-04-24 v1 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

Abstract

The Smith Hat tile is the first known aperiodic monotile, having been discovered in 2023. The simple structure, constructed using only 8 kites, is unique and well motivated for analysis within percolation theory. The primary goal of this paper is to discover the critical threshold pcp_c in both site and bond Bernoulli structures using Monte Carlo simulation for the Smith hat tile(1,3\sqrt3). Our findings are site and bond values of pcs=0.822725±0.000044p_c^s = 0.822725 \pm 0.000044 and pcb=0.798161±0.000044p_c^b = 0.798161 \pm 0.000044 for edge percolation and 0.544247±0.0001010.544247 \pm 0.000101 for site percolation on the dual graph.

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@article{arxiv.2604.21165,
  title  = {Percolation Critical Probability of Aperiodic Smith Hat tile(1, $\sqrt3$)},
  author = {Haitao Gao and Aaryash Bharadwaj},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.21165},
  year   = {2026}
}

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18 pages, 10 figures