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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Anisotropic bond percolation by position-space renormalisation group

Hisao Nakanishi, PETER J. REYNOLDS, S. Redner

Published Apr 1, 1981• 26 citations
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Abstract

Treats a percolation model with anisotropic bond occupation probabilities in order to study the crossover behaviour of the effective spatial dimension of the system. Previous position-space renormalisation group (PSRG) studies of this problem on the square lattice show a crossover from two-dimensional to pseudo-one-dimensional critical behaviour. To investigate the possible reasons for this surprising result, which is the opposite of the behaviour observed in thermal critical phenomena, the authors first develop alternative PSRG schemes. They study the predictions of these groups for asymptotically large rescaling parameters where the approximations in the PSRG are thought to become negligible. From a consideration of the approximations involved, they are led to a decimation transformation that uses an anisotropic cluster. The results of this method indicate that anisotropic percolation is in the same universality class as isotropic percolation, in complete analogy with thermal critical phenomena.

DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/14/4/015

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In complete analogy with thermal critical phenomena, it is expected that anisotropic percolation is in the same universality class as the isotropic one. However the previous result, obtained from the closed form conventional cell real space renormalization group method on the square lattice, the isotropic fixed point is completely unstable is known. We examine this in the large cell limit by using a Monte Carlo renormalization group method and show that the scaling exponent associated with anisotropy is not relevant.
A position-space renormalisation group (PSRG) approach has been developed for general site percolation problems in which the site occupancies are correlated, rather than independent, random variables. PSRG parameters are systematically introduced to describe multiple-site correlations. At the two- and four-site levels of approximation in the square lattice the authors find only two physical fixed points. One characterises random, or pure, percolation and has a universality class which is shown to encompass a variety of locally correlated site problems, including unfrustrated plaquettes and four-coordinated sites in a random-bond model. The second describes 'Ising-correlated' percolation and at the two-site level yields an excellent estimate (to within 2%) for the nearest-neighbour spin correlation function of the Ising model.
The author has investigated percolation properties of unfrustrated plaquettes in the two-dimensional Ising model with nearest-neighbour bonds +or-J distributed at random. The effects of plaquette correlations are considered using a two-parameter position-space renormalisation group (PSRG) approach, and it is found (within the framework of this approximate PSRG) that this correlated site percolation problem is in the same universality class as random site percolation. The percolation threshold is then found from large-cell PSRG methods to be indistinguishable from that for randomly placed sites.
A new single-parameter renormalization-group equation is formulated for anisotropic bond percolation in two dimensions using a position-space renormalization approach. The new equation yields the exact critical line px+py=1{p}_{x}+{p}_{y}=1px​+py​=1 within both the Migdal-Kadanoff decimation and cell renormalization schemes. For large anisotropy, however, an additional critical line appears leading to a spurious divergence in the correlation-length critical exponent. An alternative scheme, which does not preserve the exact critical surface, but yields a correlation-length exponent relatively independent of anisotropy, is also examined.