Universality of continuous phase transitions on random Voronoi graphs
Manuel Schrauth, Jefferson S. E. Portela
The Voronoi construction is ubiquitous across the natural sciences and engineering. In statistical mechanics, however, only its dual, the Delaunay triangulation, has been considered in the investigation of critical phenomena. In this paper we set to fill this gap by studying three prominent systems of classical statistical mechanics, the equilibrium spin-1/2 Ising model, the nonequilibrium contact process, and the conserved stochastic sandpile model on two-dimensional random Voronoi graphs. Particular motivation comes from the fact that these graphs have vertices of constant coordination number, making it possible to isolate topological effects of quenched disorder from node-intrinsic coordination number disorder. Using large-scale numerical simulations and finite-size scaling techniques, we are able to demonstrate that all three systems belong to their respective clean universality classes. Therefore, quenched disorder introduced by the randomness of the lattice is irrelevant and does not influence the character of the phase transitions. We report the critical points to considerable precision and, for the Ising model, also the first correction-to-scaling exponent.
arXiv:1907.12494•Physical review. E•Dec 16, 2019•3 citations