A Farey fraction spin chain

DOI10.1007/S002200050629zbMATH Open1019.82004arXivcond-mat/9808182OpenAlexW1992639315MaRDI QIDQ1809294FDOQ1809294

Authors: A. Özlük, Peter Kleban 

Publication date: 16 December 1999

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a new number-theoretic spin chain and explore its thermodynamics and connections with number theory. The energy of each spin configuration is defined in a translation-invariant manner in terms of the Farey fractions, and is also expressed using Pauli matrices. We prove that the free energy exists and exhibits a unique phase transition at inverse temperature beta = 2. The free energy is the same as that of a related, non translation-invariant number-theoretic spin chain. Using a number-theoretic argument, the low-temperature (beta > 3) state is shown to be completely magnetized for long chains. The number of states of energy E = log(n) summed over chain length is expressed in terms of a restricted divisor problem. We conjecture that its asymptotic form is (n log n), consistent with the phase transition at beta = 2, and suggesting a possible connection with the Riemann zeta function. The spin interaction coefficients include all even many-body terms and are translation invariant. Computer results indicate that all the interaction coefficients, except the constant term, are ferromagnetic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9808182

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionfree energyFarey fractionsthermodynamicsPauli matricesRiemann \(\zeta\)-functionconnections with number theorynumber-theoretic spin chainspin interaction coefficients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Sequences and sets (11B99) Miscellaneous applications of number theory (11Z05)

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