String tension in gonihedric three-dimensional Ising models

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/30/22/009MaRDI QIDQ4255718zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mariano Baig, Desmond A. Johnston, Ranasinghe P. K. C. Malmini, Domènec Espriu

Publication date 8 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9703008

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: For the 3D gonihedric Ising models defined by Savvidy and Wegner the bare string tension is zero and the energy of a spin interface depends only on the number of bends and self-intersections, in antithesis to the standard nearest-neighbour 3D Ising action. When the parameter kappa weighting the self-intersections is small the model has a first order transition and when it is larger the transition is continuous. In this paper we investigate the scaling of the renormalized string tension, which is entirely generated by fluctuations, using Monte Carlo simulations This allows us to obtain an estimate for the critical exponents alpha and nu using both finite-size-scaling and data collapse for the scaling function.

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• Low temperature expansion of the gonihedric Ising model.
• Phase transition in lattice surface systems with gonihedric action

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