title: Critical percolation in high dimensions.
abstract: We present Monte Carlo estimates for site and bond percolation thresholds in simple hypercubic lattices with 4-13 dimensions. For d<6 they are preliminary, for d>or =6 they are between 20 and 10(4) times more precise than the best previous estimates. This was achieved by three ingredients: (i) simple and fast hashing that allowed us to simulate clusters of millions of sites on computers with less than 500 Mbytes memory; (ii) a histogram method that allowed us to obtain information for several p values from a single simulation; and (iii) a variance reduction technique that is especially efficient at high dimensions where it reduces error bars by a factor of up to approximately 30 and more. Based on these data we propose a scaling law for finite cluster size corrections.
authors.affiliation: John-von-Neumann Institute for Computing, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.
authors.forename: Peter
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authors.lastname: Grassberger