Universality in boundary domain growth by sudden bridging


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2016-02-22

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We report on universality in boundary domain growth in cluster aggregation in the limit of maximum concentration. Maximal concentration means that the diffusivity of the clusters is effectively zero and, instead, clusters merge successively in a percolation process, which leads to a sudden growth of the boundary domains. For two-dimensional square lattices of linear dimension L, independent of the models studied here, we find that the maximum of the boundary interface width, the susceptibility χ, exhibits the scaling χ ~ Lγ with the universal exponent γ = 1. The rapid growth of the boundary domain at the percolation threshold, which is guaranteed to occur for almost any cluster percolation process, underlies the universal scaling of χ.

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6

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21110

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Nature

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Phase transitions and critical phenomena

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03733 - Herrmann, Hans Jürgen (emeritus) / Herrmann, Hans Jürgen (emeritus) check_circle

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