Convergence of threshold estimates for two-dimensional percolation.
Using a recently introduced algorithm for simulating percolation in microcanonical (fixed-occupancy) samples, we study the convergence with increasing system size of a number of estimates for the percolation threshold for an open system with a square boundary, specifically for site percolation on a square lattice. We show that the convergence of the average-probability estimate is described by a nontrivial correction-to-scaling exponent as predicted previously, and measure the value of this exponent to be 0.90+/-0.02. For the median and cell-to-cell estimates of the percolation threshold we verify that convergence does not depend on this exponent, having instead a slightly faster convergence with a trivial analytic leading exponent.
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Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics and Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2136, USA.
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