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Phys. Rev. E 60, 275–283 (1999)

Site percolation thresholds for Archimedean lattices

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Paul N. Suding and Robert M. Ziff*
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2136

Received 2 November 1998; revised 16 March 1999; published in the issue dated July 1999

Precise thresholds for site percolation on eight Archimedean lattices are determined by the hull-walk gradient-percolation simulation method, with the results pc=0.697043, honeycomb or (63), 0.807 904 (3,122), 0.747 806 (4,6,12), 0.729 724 (4,82), 0.579 498 (34,6), 0.621 819 (3,4,6,4), 0.550 213 (33,42), and 0.550 806 (32,4,3,4), with errors of about ±3×10-6. [The remaining Archimedean lattices are the square (44), triangular (36), and Kagomé (3,6,3,6), for which pc is already known exactly or to a high degree of accuracy.] The numerical result for the (3,122) lattice is consistent with the exact value [1-2sin(π/18)]1/2. The values of pc for all 11 Archimedean lattices, as well as a number of nonuniform lattices, are found to be well correlated by a nearly linear function of a generalized Scher-Zallen filling factor. This correlation is much more accurate than recently proposed correlations based solely upon coordination number.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.60.275
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.60.275
PACS:
64.60.Ak, 05.70.Jk

*Electronic address: rziff@engin.umich.edu