Percolation, Renormalization and the Quantum-Hall Transition

Abstract

In this article, I give a pedagogical introduction and overview of percolation theory. Special emphasis will be put on the review of some of the most prominent of the algorithms that have been devised to study percolation numerically. At the central stage shall be the real-space renormalization group treatment of the percolation problem. As a rather novel application of this approach to percolation, I will review recent results using similar real-space renormalization ideas that have been applied to the quantum Hall transition.