123 research outputs found
Nature of segregation of reactants in diffusion controlled A+B reactions: Role of mobility in forming compact clusters
We investigate the A+B=0 bimolecular chemical reaction taking place in
low-dimensional spaces when the mobilities of the two reacting species are not
equal. While the case of different reactant mobilities has been previously
reported as not affecting the scaling of the reactant densities with time, but
only the pre-exponential factor, the mechanism for this had not been explained
before. By using Monte-Carlo simulations we show that the nature of segregation
is very different when compared to the normal case of equal reactant
mobilities. The clusters of the mobile species are statistically homogeneous
and randomly distributed in space, but the clusters of the less mobile species
are much more compact and restricted in space. Due to the asymmetric
mobilities, the initial symmetric random density fluctuations in time turn into
asymmetric density fluctuations. We explain this trend by calculating the
correlation functions for the positions of particles for the several different
cases
Percolation of randomly distributed growing clusters
We investigate the problem of growing clusters, which is modeled by two
dimensional disks and three dimensional droplets. In this model we place a
number of seeds on random locations on a lattice with an initial occupation
probability, . The seeds simultaneously grow with a constant velocity to
form clusters. When two or more clusters eventually touch each other they
immediately stop their growth. The probability that such a system will result
in a percolating cluster depends on the density of the initially distributed
seeds and the dimensionality of the system. For very low initial values of
we find a power law behavior for several properties that we investigate, namely
for the size of the largest and second largest cluster, for the probability for
a site to belong to the finally formed spanning cluster, and for the mean
radius of the finally formed droplets. We report the values of the
corresponding scaling exponents. Finally, we show that for very low initial
concentration of seeds the final coverage takes a constant value which depends
on the system dimensionality.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figure
Percolation of randomly distributed growing clusters: Finite Size Scaling and Critical Exponents
We study the percolation properties of the growing clusters model. In this
model, a number of seeds placed on random locations on a lattice are allowed to
grow with a constant velocity to form clusters. When two or more clusters
eventually touch each other they immediately stop their growth. The model
exhibits a discontinuous transition for very low values of the seed
concentration and a second, non-trivial continuous phase transition for
intermediate values. Here we study in detail this continuous transition
that separates a phase of finite clusters from a phase characterized by the
presence of a giant component. Using finite size scaling and large scale Monte
Carlo simulations we determine the value of the percolation threshold where the
giant component first appears, and the critical exponents that characterize the
transition. We find that the transition belongs to a different universality
class from the standard percolation transition.Comment: 5 two-column pages, 6 figure
Single and multiple random walks on random lattices: Excitation trapping and annihilation simulations
Random walk simulations of exciton trapping and annihilation on binary and ternary lattices are presented. Single walker visitation efficiencies for ordered and random binary lattices are compared. Interacting multiple random walkers on binary and ternary random lattices are presented in terms of trapping and annihilation efficiencies that are related to experimental observables. A master equation approach, based on Monte Carlo cluster distributions, results in a nonclassical power relationship between the exciton annihilation rate and the exciton density.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45145/1/10955_2005_Article_BF01012307.pd
Finite-Size Scaling Studies of Reaction-Diffusion Systems Part III: Numerical Methods
The scaling exponent and scaling function for the 1D single species
coagulation model are shown to be universal, i.e. they are
not influenced by the value of the coagulation rate. They are independent of
the initial conditions as well. Two different numerical methods are used to
compute the scaling properties: Monte Carlo simulations and extrapolations of
exact finite lattice data. These methods are tested in a case where analytical
results are available. It is shown that Monte Carlo simulations can be used to
compute even the correction terms. To obtain reliable results from finite-size
extrapolations exact numerical data for lattices up to ten sites are
sufficient.Comment: 19 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures uuencoded, BONN HE-94-0
Filtering of complex systems using overlapping tree networks
We introduce a technique that is capable to filter out information from
complex systems, by mapping them to networks, and extracting a subgraph with
the strongest links. This idea is based on the Minimum Spanning Tree, and it
can be applied to sets of graphs that have as links different sets of
interactions among the system's elements, which are described as network nodes.
It can also be applied to correlation-based graphs, where the links are
weighted and represent the correlation strength between all pairs of nodes. We
applied this method to the European scientific collaboration network, which is
composed of all the projects supported by the European Framework Program FP6,
and also to the correlation-based network of the 100 highest capitalized stocks
traded in the NYSE. For both cases we identified meaningful structures, such as
a strongly interconnected community of countries that play important role in
the collaboration network, and clusters of stocks belonging to different
sectors of economic activity, which gives significant information about the
investigated systems.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
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