Cluster percolation and thermal critical behavior

DOI10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00202-3zbMATH Open1001.82523arXivhep-lat/0110013MaRDI QIDQ696394FDOQ696394

Authors: Helmut Satz 

Publication date: 12 September 2002

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Continuous phase transitions in spin systems can be formulated as percolation of suitably defined clusters. We review this equivalence and then discuss how in a similar way, the color deconfinement transition in SU(2) gauge theory can be treated as a percolation phenomenon. In the presence of an external field, spin systems cease to show thermal critical behavior, but the geometric percolation transition persists (Kert'esz line). For $Hot=0$, we study the relation between percolation and pseudocritical behavior, both for continuous and first order transitions, and show that it leads to the necessity of an $H$-dependent cluster definition. A viable formulation of this kind could serve as definition of deconfinement in QCD with dynamical quarks.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0110013

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zbMATH Keywords

spin systemscontinuous phase transitionspercolation phenomenon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Percolation (82B43)

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• The three-dimensional, three-state Potts model in an external field
• Percolation and deconfinement in SU(2) gauge theory
• Cluster percolation and pseudocritical behaviour in spin models

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