Branched polymers in the presence of impurities

Markus Porto, Arkady Shehter, Armin Bunde, Shlomo Havlin

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Abstract

We study branched polymers in the presence of impurities using the branched polymer growth model, which has been proposed by Lucena et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 230 (1994)]. To avoid boundary effects we study the growth process in chemical l-space and determine the structural exponents [Formula Presented], [Formula Presented], and τ. For d=2 (square lattice) and d=3 (simple cubic lattice) our results are based on numerical simulations, while for the Bethe lattice (d=∞) the quantities of interest were obtained analytically. These results support our recent suggestion that on the critical line the branched polymers belong to the universality class of percolation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1742-1748
Number of pages7
JournalPhysical Review E
Volume54
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1996

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