Kosterlitz Thouless transition in three-state mixed Potts ferro antiferromagnets

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/4/307MaRDI QIDQ4466097zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Miguel Quartin

Publication date 9 June 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0209415

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-04) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Abstract: We study three-state Potts spins on a square lattice, in which all bonds are ferromagnetic along one of the lattice directions, and antiferromagnetic along the other. Numerical transfer-matrix are used, on infinite strips of width $L$ sites, $4leqLleq14$. Based on the analysis of the ratio of scaled mass gaps (inverse correlation lengths) and scaled domain-wall free energies, we provide strong evidence that a critical (Kosterlitz-Thouless) phase is present, whose upper limit is, in our best estimate, $T_c=0.29pm0.01$. From analysis of the (extremely anisotropic) nature of excitations below $T_c$, we argue that the critical phase extends all the way down to T=0. While domain walls parallel to the ferromagnetic direction are soft for the whole extent of the critical phase, those along the antiferromagnetic direction seem to undergo a softening transition at a finite temperature. Assuming a bulk correlation length varying, for $T>T_c$, as $xi(T)=a_{x}iexp[b_{x}i(T-T_c{)}^{-sigma}]$, $sigmasimeq1/2$, we attempt finite-size scaling plots of our finite-width correlation lengths. Our best results are for $T_c=0.50pm0.01$. We propose a scenario in which such inconsistency is attributed to the extreme narrowness of the critical region.

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