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Invasion percolation in short-range and long-range disorder background

In this paper, we investigate the invasion percolation (IP) in imperfect support in which the configuration of imperfections is considered to be correlated. Three lattice models were engaged to realize this pattern: site percolation, Ising model and random Coulomb potential (RCP). The first two models are short range interaction (SRI), whereas the last one includes coulomb like interactions which is pretty long range (long-range interactions, LRI). By examining various dynamical observables we show that the critical exponents of SRI IP are robust against the control parameters (temperature in the Ising model and occupation probability in site percolation), whereas its properties in the LRI (RCP) supports are completely different from the normal IP (i.e. on the regular lattice). Especially the fractal dimension of the external frontier of the largest hole converges to $1.099\pm 0.008$ for RCP IP, whereas it is nearly $\frac{4}{3}$ for SRI IP being compatible with normal IP. Additionally a novel dynamical crossover is seen in the RCP IP according to which the time dependence of all of the observables is divided to three parts: the power-law (small times), the logarithmic (mid time), and the linear (long time) regimes. The second crossover time is shown to go to infinity in the thermodynamic limit, whereas the first crossover time is nearly unchanged, signaling the dominance of the logarithmic regime. The observables become nearly constant in the thermodynamic limit for the long time, showing that it is a stationary phase.