Analytical approximation of the site percolation thresholds for monomers and dimers on two-dimensional lattices

Abstract

In this paper, a theoretical approach to calculate site percolation thresholds on two-dimensional lattices is proposed. The method, based on exact counting of configurations on finite cells, arises as a generalization of the analytical approximation introduced by Rosowsky (2000). The resulting methodology was applied to calculate the percolation thresholds corresponding to four systems: monomers on honeycomb lattices (), dimers on square lattices (), dimers on honeycomb lattices () and dimers on triangular lattices (). The obtained results are in good agreement with previous values calculated by very accurate simulations: 0.69704, 0.5649, 0.6902 and 0.4872. The technique can be easily extended to deal with three-dimensional lattices.