Series Analysis of Randomly Diluted Nonlinear Networks With Negative Nonlinearity Exponent

Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Penn collection
Department of Physics Papers
Degree type
Discipline
Subject
Physics
Funder
Grant number
License
Copyright date
Distributor
Related resources
Author
Meir, Yigal
Blumenfeld, Raphael
Aharony, Amnon
Contributor
Abstract

The behavior of randomly diluted networks of nonlinear resistors, for each of which the voltage-current relationship is |V|=r|I|α, where α is negative, is studied using low-concentration series expansions on d-dimensional hypercubic lattices. The average nonlinear resistance ⟨R⟩ between a pair of points on the same cluster, a distance r apart, scales as rζ(α)/ν, where ν is the correlation-length exponent for percolation, and we have estimated ζ(α) in the range −1≤α≤0 for 1≤d≤6. ζ(α) is discontinuous at α=0 but, for α<0, ζ(α) is shown to vary continuously from ζmax, which describes the scaling of the maximal self-avoiding-walk length (for α→0−), to ζBB, which describes the scaling of the backbone (at α=−1). As α becomes large and negative, the loops play a more important role, and our series results are less conclusive.

Advisor
Date Range for Data Collection (Start Date)
Date Range for Data Collection (End Date)
Digital Object Identifier
Series name and number
Publication date
1987-09-01
Journal title
Physical Review B
Volume number
Issue number
Publisher
Publisher DOI
Journal Issue
Comments
At the time of publication, author A. Brooks Harris was affiliated with Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Currently, he is a faculty member in the Physics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
Recommended citation
Collection