Percolation thresholds of randomly rotating patchy particles on Archimedean lattices

Abstract

We study the percolation of randomly rotating patchy particles on $11$ Archimedean lattices in two dimensions. Each vertex of the lattice is occupied by a particle, and in each model the patch size and number are monodisperse. When there are more than one patches on the surface of a particle, they are symmetrically decorated. As the proportion $\chi$ of the particle surface covered by the patches increases, the clusters connected by the patches grow and the system percolates at the threshold ${\chi }_c$. We combine Monte Carlo simulations and the critical polynomial method to give precise estimates of ${\chi }_c$ for disks with one to six patches and spheres with one to two patches on the $11$ lattices. For one-patch particles, we find that the order of ${\chi }_c$ values for particles on different lattices is the same as that of threshold values $p_c$ for site percolation on same lattices, which implies that ${\chi }_c$ for one-patch particles mainly depends on the geometry of lattices. For particles with more patches, symmetry become very important in determining ${\chi }_c$. With the estimates of ${\chi }_c$ for disks with one to six patches, by analyses related to symmetry, we are able to give precise values of ${\chi }_c$ for disks with an arbitrary number of patches on all $11$ lattices. The following rules are found for patchy disks on each of these lattices: (i) as the number of patches $n$ increases, values of ${\chi }_c$ repeat in a periodic way, with the period $n_0$ determined by the symmetry of the lattice; (ii) when $\mathrm{mod}(n,n_0)=0$, the minimum threshold value ${\chi }_{\min }$ appears, and the model is equivalent to site percolation with ${\chi }_{\min }=p_c$; (iii) disks with $\mathrm{mod}(n,n_0)=m$ and $n_0-m$ ($m<n_0/2$) share the same ${\chi }_c$ value.

14 pages, 8 figures for the main text; 41 pages, 25 figures for the supplemental material. Comparing with the previous version, we have mainly added new results for disks with an arbitrary number of patches on six lattices

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