A Remark Concerning Percolation Thresholds in Polydisperse Systems of Finite-Diameter Rods

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 244-248

  Chatterjee, Avik P ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bethe lattice; Integral equation methods; Percolation; Polydisperse rods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84155186333     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-011-0400-y     Document Type: Article

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