ac Hopping conduction at extreme disorder takes place on the percolating cluster

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Jul 11;101(2):025901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.025901. Epub 2008 Jul 8.

Abstract

Simulations of the random barrier model show that ac currents at extreme disorder are carried almost entirely by the percolating cluster slightly above threshold; thus contributions from isolated low-activation-energy clusters are negligible. The effective medium approximation in conjunction with the Alexander-Orbach conjecture lead to an excellent analytical fit to the universal ac conductivity with no nontrivial fitting parameters.