Marginal dimensions of the Potts model with invisible states

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/25/255001zbMATH Open1342.82038arXiv1512.03635OpenAlexW2293383246MaRDI QIDQ3186263FDOQ3186263

Authors: Mariana Krasnytska, Petro Sarkanych, Bertrand Berche, Yu. Holovatch, R. Kenna 

Publication date: 9 August 2016

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

Abstract: We reconsider the mean-field Potts model with $q$ interacting and $r$ non-interacting (invisible) states. The model was recently introduced to explain discrepancies between theoretical predictions and experimental observations of phase transitions in some systems where the $Z_q$-symmetry is spontaneously broken. We analyse the marginal dimensions of the model, i.e., the value of $r$ at which the order of the phase transition changes. In the $q=2$ case, we determine that value to be $r_c=3.65(5)$; there is a second-order phase transition there when $r<r_c$ and a first-order one at $r>r_c$. We also analyse the region $1leqq<2$ and show that the change from second to first order there is manifest through a new mechanism involving {emph{two}} marginal values of $r$. The $q=1$ limit gives bond percolation and some intermediary values also have known physical realisations. Above the lower value $r_{c1}$, the order parameters exhibit discontinuities at temperature $ildet$ below a critical value $t_c$. But, provided $r>r_{c1}$ is small enough, this discontinuity does not appear at the phase transition, which is continuous and takes place at $t_c$. The larger value $r_{c2}$ marks the point at which the phase transition at $t_c$ changes from second to first order. Thus, for $r_{c1}<r<r_{c2}$, the transition at $t_c$ remains second order while the order parameter has a discontinuity at $ildet$. As $r$ increases further, $ildet$ increases, bringing the discontinuity closer to $t_c$. Finally, when $r$ exceeds $r_{c2}$ $ildet$ coincides with $t_c$ and the phase transition becomes first order. This new mechanism indicates how the discontinuity characteristic of first order phase transitions emerges.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03635

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionpercolationPotts modelinvisible states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Percolation (82B43)

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