Lectures on the Spin and Loop O(n) Models

DOI10.1007/978-981-15-0294-1_10MaRDI QIDQ3297366zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ron Peled, Yinon Spinka

Publication date 3 July 2020

Published in Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.00058

zbMATH Keywords

decay of correlationsIsing modelphase transitionsLipschitz functionsSchramm-Loewner evolutionsymmetry breakingconformal loop ensemblereflection positivityself-avoiding walkdimer modelXY modelgraphical representationHeisenberg modelloop \(\mathrm{O}(n)\) modelBerezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transitionhard hexagon modelspontaneous magnetizationdilute Potts modelGaussian dominationinfra-red boundmacroscopic loopschessboard estimatecritical percolation on the triangular latticeMermin-Wagnermicroscopic loopsproper 4-coloring of the triangular latticespin \(\mathrm{O}(n)\) model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Percolation (82B43) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40) Stochastic (Schramm-)Loewner evolution (SLE) (60J67)

Abstract: The classical spin $O(n)$ model is a model on a $d$-dimensional lattice in which a vector on the $(n-1)$-dimensional sphere is assigned to every lattice site and the vectors at adjacent sites interact ferromagnetically via their inner product. Special cases include the Ising model ($n=1$), the XY model ($n=2$) and the Heisenberg model ($n=3$). We discuss questions of long-range order and decay of correlations in the spin $O(n)$ model for different combinations of the lattice dimension $d$ and the number of spin components $n$. The loop $O(n)$ model is a model for a random configuration of disjoint loops. We discuss its properties on the hexagonal lattice. The model is parameterized by a loop weight $nge0$ and an edge weight $xge0$. Special cases include self-avoiding walk ($n=0$), the Ising model ($n=1$), critical percolation ($n=x=1$), dimer model ($n=1,x=infty$), proper $4$-coloring ($n=2,x=infty)$, integer-valued ($n=2$) and tree-valued (integer $n>=3$) Lipschitz functions and the hard hexagon model ($n=infty$). The object of study in the model is the typical structure of loops. We review the connection of the model with the spin $O(n)$ model and discuss its conjectured phase diagram, emphasizing the many open problems remaining.

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