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Contents
                                   1Introduction
                                   2History
                                   3Computation of the critical parameter
                                   4Universality
                                   5Phases
                                     o 5.1Subcritical and supercritical
                                     o 5.2Criticality
                                   6Different models
                                   7Applications
                                     o 7.1In biology, biochemistry, and physical virology
                                     o 7.2In ecology
                                   8See also
                                   9References
                                     o 9.1Further reading
                                   10External links
Introduction[edit]
The same questions can be asked for any lattice dimension. As is quite typical, it is
actually easier to examine infinite networks than just large ones. In this case the
corresponding question is: does an infinite open cluster exist? That is, is there a path
of connected points of infinite length "through" the network? By Kolmogorov's zero–
one law, for any given p, the probability that an infinite cluster exists is either zero or
one. Since this probability is an increasing function of p (proof
via coupling argument), there must be a critical p (denoted by pc) below which the
probability is always 0 and above which the probability is always 1. In practice, this
criticality is very easy to observe. Even for n as small as 100, the probability of an
open path from the top to the bottom increases sharply from very close to zero to
very close to one in a short span of values of p.
Detail of a bond percolation on the square lattice in two dimensions with percolation probability p = 0.51
History[edit]
The Flory–Stockmayer theory was the first theory investigating percolation
processes.[2]
The history of the percolation model as we know it has its root in the coal industry.
Since the industrial revolution, the economical importance of this source of energy
fostered many scientific studies to understand its composition and optimize its use.
During the 30' and 40', the qualitative analysis by organic chemistry left more and
more room to more quantitative studies. [3]
In this context, the British Coal Utilisation Research Association (BCURA) was
created in 1938. It is a research association funded by the coal mines owners. In
1942, Rosalind Franklin, who then recently graduated in chemistry from the
university of Cambridge, joined the BCURA. She started research on the density and
porosity of coal. During the Second World War, coal was an important strategic
resource. It was used as a source of energy, but also was the main constituent of
gas masks.
Coal is a porous medium. To measure its 'real' density, one was to sink it in a liquid
or a gas whose molecule are small enough to fill its microscopic pores. While trying
to measure the density of coal using several gases (helium, methanol, hexane,
benzene) and as she found different values depending on the used gas, Rosalind
Franklin showed that the pores of coal are made of microstructures of various
lengths that act as a microscopic sieve to discriminate the gases. She also
discovered that the size of these structures depends on the temperature of
carbonation during the coal production. With these research, she obtained a PhD
degree and she left the BCURA in 1946. [4]
In the mid fifties, Simon Broadbent worked in the BCURA as a statistician. Among
other interests, he studied the use of coal in gas masks. One question is to
understand how a fluid can diffuse in the coal pores, modeled as a random maze of
open or closed tunnels. In 1954, during a symposium on Monte Carlo methods, he
asks questions to John Hammersley on the use of numerical methods to analyze this
model. [5]
Broadbent and Hammersley introduced in their article of 1957 a mathematical model
to model this phenomenon, that is percolation.
This indicates that for a given degree distribution, the clustering leads to a larger
percolation threshold, mainly because for a fixed number of links, the clustering
structure reinforces the core of the network with the price of diluting the global
connections. For networks with high clustering, strong clustering could induce the
core–periphery structure, in which the core and periphery might percolate at different
critical points, and the above approximate treatment is not applicable. [12]
Universality[edit]
The universality principle states that the numerical value of pc is determined by the
local structure of the graph, whereas the behavior near the critical threshold, pc, is
characterized by universal critical exponents. For example the distribution of the size
of clusters at criticality decays as a power law with the same exponent for all 2d
lattices. This universality means that for a given dimension, the various critical
exponents, the fractal dimension of the clusters at pc is independent of the lattice
type and percolation type (e.g., bond or site). However, recently percolation has
been performed on a weighted planar stochastic lattice (WPSL) and found that
although the dimension of the WPSL coincides with the dimension of the space
where it is embedded, its universality class is different from that of all the known
planar lattices.[13][14]
Phases[edit]
Subcritical and supercritical[edit]
The main fact in the subcritical phase is "exponential decay". That is, when p < pc,
the probability that a specific point (for example, the origin) is contained in an open
cluster (meaning a maximal connected set of "open" edges of the graph) of
size r decays to zero exponentially in r. This was proved for percolation in three and
more dimensions by Menshikov (1986) and independently by Aizenman & Barsky
(1987). In two dimensions, it formed part of Kesten's proof that pc = 1/2 .[15]
The dual graph of the square lattice ℤ2 is also the square lattice. It follows that, in two
dimensions, the supercritical phase is dual to a subcritical percolation process. This
provides essentially full information about the supercritical model with d = 2. The
main result for the supercritical phase in three and more dimensions is that, for
sufficiently large N, there is[clarification needed] an infinite open cluster in the two-dimensional
slab ℤ2 × [0, N]d − 2. This was proved by Grimmett & Marstrand (1990).[16]
In two dimensions with p < 1/2 , there is with probability one a unique infinite closed
cluster (a closed cluster is a maximal connected set of "closed" edges of the graph).
Thus the subcritical phase may be described as finite open islands in an infinite
closed ocean. When p > 1/2  just the opposite occurs, with finite closed islands in an
infinite open ocean. The picture is more complicated when d ≥ 3 since pc < 1/2 , and
there is coexistence of infinite open and closed clusters for p between pc and 1 − pc.
Criticality[edit]
Different models[edit]
                             Directed percolation that models the effect
                              of gravitational forces acting on the liquid was also
                              introduced in Broadbent & Hammersley (1957),[1] and
                              has connections with the contact process.
                             The first model studied was Bernoulli percolation. In this
                              model all bonds are independent. This model is called
                              bond percolation by physicists.
                             A generalization was next introduced as the Fortuin–
                              Kasteleyn random cluster model, which has many
                              connections with the Ising model and other Potts
                              models.
                              Bernoulli (bond) percolation on complete graphs is an
                               example of a random graph. The critical probability
                               is p = 1/N , where N is the number of vertices (sites) of
                               the graph.
                              Bootstrap percolation removes active cells from clusters
                               when they have too few active neighbors, and looks at
                               the connectivity of the remaining cells.[20]
                              First passage percolation.
                              Invasion percolation.
Applications[edit]
In biology, biochemistry, and physical virology[edit]
Percolation theory has been used to successfully predict the fragmentation of
biological virus shells (capsids),[21][22] with the fragmentation threshold of Hepatitis
B virus capsid predicted and detected experimentally.[23] When a critical number of
subunits has been randomly removed from the nanoscopic shell, it fragments and
this fragmentation may be detected using Charge Detection Mass Spectroscopy
(CDMS) among other single-particle techniques. This is a molecular analog to the
common board game Jenga, and has relevance to the broader study of virus
disassembly. Interestingly, more stable viral particles (tilings with greater
fragmentation thresholds) are found in greater abundance in nature. [21]
In ecology[edit]
Percolation theory has been applied to studies of how environment fragmentation
impacts animal habitats[24] and models of how the plague bacterium Yersinia
pestis spreads.[25]
See also[edit]
                              Continuum percolation theory
                              Critical exponent – Parameter describing physics near
                               critical points
                              Directed percolation – Physical models of filtering under
                               forces such as gravity
                              Erdős–Rényi model – Two closely related models for
                               generating random graphs
                              Fractal – Infinitely detailed mathematical structure
                              Giant component – Large connected component of a
                               random graph
                              Graph theory – Area of discrete mathematics
                              Interdependent networks – Subfield of network science
                              Invasion percolation
                              Kahn–Kalai conjecture – Mathematical proposition
                              Network theory – Study of graphs as a representation of
                               relations between discrete objects
                              Network science – Academic field
                      Percolation threshold – Threshold of percolation theory
                       models
                      Percolation critical exponents – Mathematical parameter
                       in percolation theory
                      Scale-free network – Network whose degree distribution
                       follows a power law
                      Shortest path problem – Computational problem of
                       graph theory
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                                                           Austin, David (July 2008). "Percolation: Slipping through the Cracks".
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                     External links[edit]
                                                           PercoVIS: a Mac OS X program to visualize percolation
                                                            on networks in real time
                                                           Interactive Percolation
                                                           Nanohub online course on Percolation Theory
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