Fractals meet fractals: self-avoiding random walks on percolation clusters
โ Scribed by Viktoria Blavatska; Wolfhard Janke
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 283 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1875-3892
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โฆ Synopsis
The scaling behavior of linear polymers in disordered media, modelled by self-avoiding walks (SAWs) on the backbone of percolation clusters in two, three and four dimensions is studied by numerical simulations. We apply the pruned-enriched Rosenbluth chain-growth method (PERM). Our numerical results yield estimates of critical exponents, governing the scaling laws of disorder averages of the configurational properties of SAWs, and clearly indicate a multifractal spectrum which emerges when two fractals meet each other.
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The exponent u and the connectivity constant p of an indefinitely growing self-avoiding walk and the pH for Hamiltonian walk in five simplex fractal have been calculated. We show that u is a decreasing function of d and that d = 4 is not the critical dimension.