Possible crossover of a nonuniversal quantity at the upper critical dimension

S. Galam, A. Mauger
2005 Physical Review E  
We report on a possible crossover of a non universal quantity at the upper critical dimensionality in the field of percolation. Plotting recent estimates for site percolation thresholds of hypercubes in dimension 6< d< 13 against corresponding predictions from the GM formula p_c=p_0 [ (d-1)(q-1) ]^-a d^b for percolation thresholds, a significant departure of p_c is observed for d> 6. This result is reminiscent of the crossover undergone by universal quantities in critical phenomena. For bond
more » ... colation, the evidence of such a crossover of dimensionality would require an improvement of the GM formula to reach a relative error of typically 0.2 hypercubes.
doi:10.1103/physreve.71.036136 pmid:15903522 fatcat:b4nzwvtaczbx7fuxviirktftki