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Strongly-connected percolation on directed lattices

Statistical Mechanics 2026-07-27 v1

Abstract

We study percolation on lattices with directed bonds, focusing on the behavior of strongly-connected percolation clusters -- clusters in which every site is reachable from every other along a directed path. We consider the two-dimensional square lattice and various globally isotropic arrangements of the directions of the bonds. Performing simulations using a range of algorithmic approaches, we calculate high-precision values for critical exponents, fractal dimensions, crossing probabilities, and percolation thresholds for bond percolation with each bond arrangement. We find that the critical behavior is in a distinctly different universality class from that of traditional undirected percolation, but that all bond arrangements appear to fall in the same universality class.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.24975,
  title  = {Strongly-connected percolation on directed lattices},
  author = {M. E. J. Newman and P. Grassberger and R. M. Ziff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.24975},
  year   = {2026}
}

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16 pages, 14 figures, 3 tables