학술논문

On the universality of geometrical and transport exponents of rigidity percolation
Document Type
Article
Source
Journal of Statistical Physics; November 1992, Vol. 69 Issue: 3-4 p887-895, 9p
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ISSN
00224715; 15729613
Abstract
We develop a three-parameter position-space renormalization group method and investigate the universality of geometrical and transport exponents of rigidity (vector) percolation in two dimensions. To do this, we study site-bond percolation in which sites and bonds are randomly and independently occupied with probabilitiess andb, respectively. The global flow diagram of the renormalization transformation is obtained which shows that thegeometrical exponents of the rigid clusters in both site and bond percolation belong to the same universality class, and possibly that of random (scalar) percolation. However, if we use the same renormalization transformation to calculate the critical exponents of the elastic moduli of the system in bond and site percolation, we find them to be very different (although the corresponding values of the correlation length exponent are the same). This indicates that the critical exponent of the elastic moduli of rigidity percolation may not be universal, which is consistent with some of the recent numerical simulations.