1D three-state mean-field Potts model with first- and second-order phase transitions

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2020.124415zbMATH Open1496.82004arXiv1205.6777OpenAlexW1650615009MaRDI QIDQ2139659FDOQ2139659

Farruh Mukhamedov, Massimo Ostilli

Publication date: 19 May 2022

Published in: Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze a three-state Potts model built over a lattice ring, with coupling $J_0$, and the fully connected graph, with coupling $J$. This model is effectively mean-field and can be exactly solved by using transfer-matrix method and Cardano formula. When $J$ and $J_0$ are both ferromagnetic, the model has a first-order phase transition which turns out to be a smooth modification of the known phase transition of the traditional mean-field Potts model ($J_0=0$), despite, as we prove, the connected correlation functions are now non zero, even in the paramagnetic phase. Furthermore, besides the first-order transition, there exists also a hidden continuous transition at a temperature below which the symmetric metastable state ceases to exist. When $J$ is ferromagnetic and $J_0$ antiferromagnetic, a similar antiferromagnetic counterpart phase transition scenario applies. Quite interestingly, differently from the Ising-like two-state case, for large values of the antiferromagnetic coupling $J_0$, the critical temperature of the system tends to a finite value.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6777

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionsPotts modelexact resultseffective mean field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23)

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