Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 55, Number 5, September 2001
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Page(s) | 679 - 685 | |
Section | Condensed matter: structure, mechanical and thermal properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2001-00469-9 | |
Published online | 01 December 2003 |
High-dimensional diffusive growth
1
Center for Nonlinear Studies, MS B258, Los Alamos National
Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
2
Corporate Strategic Research, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Route 22 East, Annandale, NJ 08801, USA
Corresponding author: hastings@cnls.lanl.gov
Received:
6
November
2000
Accepted:
14
June
2001
We consider a model of aggregation, both diffusion-limited and ballistic, based on the Cayley tree. Growth is from the leaves of the tree towards the root, leading to non-trivial screening and branch competition effects. The model exhibits a phase transition between ballistic and diffusion-controlled growth, with non-trivial corrections to cluster size at the critical point. Even in the ballistic regime, cluster scaling is controlled by rare events due to the branching structure of the Cayley tree; it is this that enables us to solve the model.
PACS: 61.43.Hv – Fractals; macroscopic aggregates (including diffusion-limited aggregates) / 47.53.+n – Fractals / 05.40.-a – Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion
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