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Alain Mauger

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A Universal Formula for Percolation Thresholds II. Extension to Anisotropic and Aperiodic Lattices

In a recent paper, we have reported a universal power law for both site and bond percolation thresholds in any Bravais lattice with q equivalent nearest neighbors in dimension d. We now extend it to three different classes of lattices which are, respectively, anisotropic lattices whith not equivalent nearest neighbors, non-Bravais lattices with two atom unit cells, and quasicrystals. The investigation is focussed on d=2 and d=3, due to the lack of experimental data at higher dimensions. The extension to these lattices requires the substitution of q by an effective (non integer) value $q_{eff}$ in the universal law. For each out of 17 lattices which constitute our sample, we argue the existence of one $q_{eff}$ which reproduces both the site and the percolation threshold, with a deviation with respect to numerical estimates which does not exceed $\mp 0.01$.

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A Quasi-exact Formula for Ising critical temperatures on Hypercubic Lattices

We report a quasi-exact power law behavior for Ising critical temperatures on hypercubes. It reads $J/k_BT_c=K_0[(1-1/d)(q-1)]^a$ where $K_0=0.6260356$, $a=0.8633747$, $d$ is the space dimension, $q$ the coordination number ($q=2d$), $J$ the coupling constant, $k_B$ the Boltzman constant and $T_c$ the critical temperature. Absolute errors from available exact estimates ($d=2$ up to $d=7$) are always less than $0.0005$. Extension to other lattices is discussed.

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Universal Formulae for Percolation Thresholds

A power law is postulated for both site and bond percolation thresholds. The formula writes $p_c=p_0[(d-1)(q-1)]^{-a}d^{\ b}$, where $d$ is the space dimension and $q$ the coordination number. All thresholds up to $d\rightarrow \infty$ are found to belong to only three universality classes. For first two classes $b=0$ for site dilution while $b=a$ for bond dilution. The last one associated to high dimensions is characterized by $b=2a-1$ for both sites and bonds. Classes are defined by a set of value for $\{p_0; \ a\}$. Deviations from available numerical estimates at $d \leq 7$ are within $\pm 0.008$ and $\pm 0.0004$ for high dimensional hypercubic expansions at $d \geq 8$. The formula is found to be also valid for Ising critical temperatures.

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