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arxiv: cond-mat/9402003 · v1 · submitted 1994-02-01 · ❄️ cond-mat

Non universal DLA and exact fractal dimensions

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keywords fractalparticlesdimensionsdistributionstheoryaggregationagreementanalogy
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In analogy to recent results on non-universal roughening in surface growth [Lam and Sander, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 69}, 3338 (1992)], we propose a variant of diffusion-limited aggregation ($DLA$) in which the radii of the particles are chosen from a power law distribution. For very broad distributions, the huge particles dominate and the fractal dimension is calculated exactly using a scaling theory. For narrower distributions, it crosses back to DLA. We simulated $1200$ clusters containing up to $200,000$ particles. The fractal dimensions obtained are in reasonable agreement with our theory.

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