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arXiv:cond-mat/9709285·v1·cond-mat.dis-nn

Exact results at the 2-D percolation point

P. Kleban (1) · R. M. Ziff (2) ((1) Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology & Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maine, Orono, ME, (2) Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)

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Abstract

We derive exact expressions for the excess number of clusters b and the excess cumulants b_n of a related quantity at the 2-D percolation point. High-accuracy computer simulations are in accord with our predictions. b is a finite-size correction to the Temperley-Lieb or Baxter-Temperley-Ashley formula for the number of clusters per site n_c in the infinite system limit; the bn correct bulk cumulants. b and b_n are universal, and thus depend only on the system's shape. Higher-order corrections show no apparent dependence on fractional powers of the system size.

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX, submitted to Physical Review Letters