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Linear relationship statistics in diffusion limited aggregation

Abbas Ali Saberi

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We show that various surface parameters in two-dimensional diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) grow linearly with the number of particles. We find the ratio of the average length of the perimeter and the accessible perimeter of a DLA cluster together with its external perimeters to the cluster size, and define a microscopic schematic procedure for attachment of an incident new particle to the cluster. We measure the fractal dimension of the red sites (i.e., the sites such that cutting each of them splits the cluster) as equal to that of the DLA cluster. It is also shown that the average number of dead sites and the average number of red sites have linear relationships with the cluster size.


PACS

05.60.-k Transport processes

05.45.Df Fractals

61.43.Hv Fractals; macroscopic aggregates (including diffusion-limited aggregates)

05.50.+q Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.)

Subjects

Condensed matter: structural, mechanical & thermal

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 46 (18 November 2009)

Received 12 August 2009, in final form 23 September 2009

Published 26 October 2009



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