Integrability versus non-integrability: hard hexagons and hard squares compared

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/44/445001MaRDI QIDQ2936375zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors M. Assis, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, I. Jensen, Jean-Marie Maillard, Barry M. McCoy

Publication date 16 December 2014

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.5566

zbMATH Keywords

equimodular curveshard hexagon modelhard square modelpartition function zeros

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70) Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Moduli and deformations for ordinary differential equations (e.g., Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation) (32G34) Painlevé and other special ordinary differential equations in the complex domain; classification, hierarchies (34M55) General theory of ordinary differential operators (47E05) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Abstract: In this paper we compare the integrable hard hexagon model with the non-integrable hard squares model by means of partition function roots and transfer matrix eigenvalues. We consider partition functions for toroidal, cylindrical, and free-free boundary conditions up to sizes $40imes40$ and transfer matrices up to 30 sites. For all boundary conditions the hard squares roots are seen to lie in a bounded area of the complex fugacity plane along with the universal hard core line segment on the negative real fugacity axis. The density of roots on this line segment matches the derivative of the phase difference between the eigenvalues of largest (and equal) moduli and exhibits much greater structure than the corresponding density of hard hexagons. We also study the special point $z=-1$ of hard squares where all eigenvalues have unit modulus, and we give several conjectures for the value at $z=-1$ of the partition functions.

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