https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2005-00085-7
Directed polymer – directed percolation transition: the strong disorder case
Minerva Center and Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel
Corresponding author: a havlin@ophir.ph.biu.ac.il
Received:
22
January
2004
Revised:
1
October
2004
Published online:
30
March
2005
The transition of physical properties in disordered systems from strong disorder characteristics
to weak disorder characteristics is studied for the directed polymer case. It is shown
analytically that this transition is governed by the ratio
, where ρ is the probability density of the maximal bond of the optimal
Min-Max path, pc is the critical probability of directed percolation,
and k is the degree of disorder.
This analytic result is found to be in agreement with numerical results related to
this transition.
PACS: 05.40.-a – Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion / 05.50.+q – Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.)
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