Dimer geometry, amoebae and a vortex dimer model

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA8044zbMATH Open1376.82020arXiv1612.06308OpenAlexW3104211938MaRDI QIDQ5363391FDOQ5363391

Authors: Denjoe O'Connor, Charles Nash 

Publication date: 6 October 2017

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

Abstract: We present a geometrical approach for studying dimers. We introduce a connection for dimer problems on bipartite and non-bipartite graphs. In the bipartite case the connection is flat but has non-trivial $$ holonomy round certain curves. This holonomy has the universality property that it does not change as the number of vertices in the fundamental domain of the graph is increased. It is argued that the K-theory of the torus, with or without punctures, is the appropriate underlying invariant. In the non-bipartite case the connection has non-zero curvature as well as non-zero Chern number. The curvature does not require the introduction of a magnetic field. The phase diagram of these models is captured by what is known as an amoeba. We introduce a dimer model with negative edge weights that give rise to vortices. The amoebae for various models are studied with particular emphasis on the case of negative edge weights which corresponds to the presence of vortices. Vortices gives rise to new kinds of amoebae with certain singular structures which we investigate. On the amoeba of the vortex full hexagonal lattice we find the partition function corresponds to that of a massless Dirac doublet.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.06308

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zbMATH Keywords

geometryvorticesdimers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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