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Monte Carlo evidence for the deviation from the Alexander-Orbach rule in three-dimensional percolation

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Computer simulation is used to study the diffusion at the percolation threshold on large simple cubic lattices. The exponentk for the rms displacementr witht inr ∼ tk is found to be smaller than 0.2, while the Alexander-Orbach 4/3 rule for the spectral dimension predictsk=0.201 ± 0.002.

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on leave from Minnesota Supercomputer Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455.

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Pandey, R.B., Stauffer, D. & Zabolitzky, J.G. Monte Carlo evidence for the deviation from the Alexander-Orbach rule in three-dimensional percolation. J Stat Phys 49, 849–854 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01009361

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