Phys. Rev. E 54, R3079 - R3081 (1996)

Scaling for random walks on Eden trees

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F. D. A. Aarão Reis *
Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Avenida Litorânea s/n, Campus da Praia Vermelha, 24210-340 Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rapid Communication Received 14 June 1996

Random walks are simulated on finite stages of construction of Eden trees in dimensions D=2 and 3, and it is shown that the mean-square displacement 〈RN2〉 of N-step walks and the mean number of distinct visited sites 〈SN〉 obey finite-size scaling. Accurate estimates of the dimensions of the random walks Dw are obtained and the relation 〈SN〉∼ND / Dw / (logN)α is shown to hold in these fractals, with positive exponents α. Then the Alexander-Orbach scaling relation Ds=2D / Dw is satisfied, where Ds is the spectral dimension, contrary to previous proposals in these and other treelike structures.


©1996 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.54.R3079
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.54.R3079
PACS: 05.40.+j, 05.50.+q

* Electronic address: reis@if.uff.br

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