Scaling of loop-erased walks in 2 to 4 dimensions

DOI10.1007/S10955-009-9787-0zbMATH Open1180.82078arXiv0905.3440OpenAlexW2049586829MaRDI QIDQ842335FDOQ842335

Authors: P. Grassberger 

Publication date: 22 September 2009

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We simulate loop-erased random walks on simple (hyper-)cubic lattices of dimensions 2,3, and 4. These simulations were mainly motivated to test recent two loop renormalization group predictions for logarithmic corrections in $d=4$, simulations in lower dimensions were done for completeness and in order to test the algorithm. In $d=2$, we verify with high precision the prediction $D=5/4$, where the number of steps $n$ after erasure scales with the number $N$ of steps before erasure as $nsim{N}^{D/2}$. In $d=3$ we again find a power law, but with an exponent different from the one found in the most precise previous simulations: $D=1.6236pm0.0004$. Finally, we see clear deviations from the naive scaling $nsimN$ in $d=4$. While they agree only qualitatively with the leading logarithmic corrections predicted by several authors, their agreement with the two-loop prediction is nearly perfect.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3440

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zbMATH Keywords

critical exponentslogarithmic correctionsloop-erased walks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28)

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