Exact Potts Model Partition Functions on Ladder Graphs

DOI10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00109-6arXivcond-mat/0001389MaRDI QIDQ6465737FDOQ6465737

Authors: Robert Shrock 

Publication date: 26 January 2000

Abstract: We present exact calculations of the partition function $Z$ of the $q$-state Potts model and its generalization to real $q$, the random cluster model, for arbitrary temperature on $n$-vertex ladder graphs with free, cyclic, and M"obius longitudinal boundary conditions. These partition functions are equivalent to Tutte/Whitney polynomials for these graphs. The free energy is calculated exactly for the infinite-length limit of these ladder graphs and the thermodynamics is discussed.

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