The information geometry of the one-dimensional Potts model

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Abstract: In various statistical-mechanical models the introduction of a metric onto the space of parameters (e.g. the temperature variable, , and the external field variable, h, in the case of spin models) gives an alternative perspective on the phase structure. For the one-dimensional Ising model the scalar curvature, calR, of this metric can be calculated explicitly in the thermodynamic limit and is found to be . This is positive definite and, for physical fields and temperatures, diverges only at the zero-temperature, zero-field ``critical point of the model. In this note we calculate calR for the one-dimensional q-state Potts model, finding an expression of the form , where is the Potts analogue of . This is no longer positive definite, but once again it diverges only at the critical point in the space of real parameters. We remark, however, that a naive analytic continuation to complex field reveals a further divergence in the Ising and Potts curvatures at the Lee-Yang edge.









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