Cluster percolation and thermal critical behavior

DOI10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00202-3MaRDI QIDQ696394zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Helmut Satz

Publication date 12 September 2002

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

spin systemscontinuous phase transitionspercolation phenomenon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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