EXACT SOLUTION OF THE SIX-VERTEX MODEL WITH DOMAIN WALL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS: CRITICAL LINE BETWEEN DISORDERED AND ANTIFERROELECTRIC PHASES

DOI10.1142/S2010326312500128zbMath1266.82026arXiv1208.6276MaRDI QIDQ4910891

Thomas Bothner, Pavel M. Bleher

Publication date: 13 March 2013

Published in: Random Matrices: Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.6276

zbMATH Keywords

Riemann-Hilbert problem; Toda equation; six-vertex model; domain wall boundary conditions; asymptotic behavior of the partition function; critical line between disordered and antiferroelectric phases; Deift-Zhou non-linear steepest descent method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

82D45: Statistical mechanics of ferroelectrics

82B26: Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics

82B23: Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz

82B20: Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics

15B52: Random matrices (algebraic aspects)

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