Ground State Entropy of the Potts Antiferromagnet with Next-Nearest-Neighbor Spin-Spin Couplings on Strips of the Square Lattice

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVE.62.4650arXivcond-mat/0005236WikidataQ73217058 ScholiaQ73217058MaRDI QIDQ6465752FDOQ6465752

Publication date: 14 May 2000

Abstract: We present exact calculations of the zero-temperature partition function (chromatic polynomial) and

W (q)

, the exponent of the ground-state entropy, for the

q

-state Potts antiferromagnet with next-nearest-neighbor spin-spin couplings on square lattice strips, of width

L_{y} = 3

and

L_{y} = 4

vertices and arbitrarily great length

L_{x}

vertices, with both free and periodic boundary conditions. The resultant values of

W

for a range of physical

q

values are compared with each other and with the values for the full 2D lattice. These results give insight into the effect of such non-nearest neighbor couplings on the ground state entropy. We show that the

q = 2

(Ising) and

q = 4

Potts antiferromagnets have zero-temperature critical points on the

L_{x} o i n f t y

limits of the strips that we study. With the generalization of

q

from

{m a t h b b Z}_{+}

to

m a t h b b C

, we determine the analytic structure of

W (q)

in the

q

plane for the various cases.

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