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Partition Function Zeros of a Restricted Potts Model on Lattice Strips and Effects of Boundary Conditions
Statistical Mechanics · Submitted 18 Feb 2006 · 40 references
Pith's reading: Zeros of the Potts partition function on square, triangular, and honeycomb lattice strips accumulate along curves that always pass through Q=4 and, for cyclic boundary conditions, cross the real axis at the Tutte-Beraha numbers Q_{2l}.
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Zeros of the Potts partition function on square, triangular, and honeycomb lattice strips accumulate along curves that always pass through Q=4 and, for cyclic boundary conditions, cross the real axis at the Tutte-Beraha numbers Q_{2l}.
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On a strip that is infinite in the long direction and finite in the short one, the partition function can be written exactly as a sum of powers of a fixed set of transfer-matrix eigenvalues. As the strip becomes longer, the zeros of the partition function accumulate on curves where two eigenvalues are equal in magnitude. The authors compute these accumulation curves for several widths and boundary conditions, and show that zeros from long finite strips hug the predicted curves. They find that every nontrivial curve passes through v = -2, which maps to Q = 4 for all three lattices. For strips that are periodic in the long direction, the curves in the Q plane also cross the real axis at the Tutte-Beraha numbers Q = 4 cos^2(pi / 2l) for l = 1 up to the strip width. These numbers are known to signal a simplification in the algebraic structure of the transfer matrix. The authors conjecture that the pattern continues for all widths, but prove it only for widths up to five.
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Section VI: 'For all of the strips, including those of the square, triangular, and honeycomb lattices, that we have studied where nontrivial continuous accumulation loci are defined (thus excluding the 1 x m line graph with free boundary conditions), we find that Bv passes through v=-2 and BQ passes through Q=4.' Additionally, for cyclic strips, 'BQ crosses the real axis at Q=Q_{2l} for l=1,...,Ly; we conjecture that this holds for arbitrarily large Ly.' If correct, the Q=4 point and the Tutte-Beraha intersections are universal features of the zeros of this restricted Potts model on quasi-one-dimensional strips.
Load-bearing premise
The paper identifies the accumulation locus B with the equimodular set of transfer-matrix eigenvalues, stating in Section I that 'These loci are determined by the equality in magnitude of the eigenvalues of the transfer matrix of the model with maximal modulus.' This is a nontrivial theorem about zeros of sums of exponentials (Beraha-Kahane-Weiss), and the paper neither proves nor cites it for this application. If the coefficients c_j in Eq. (2.1) have cancellations along the equimodular set, the locus could be a proper subset of the equimodular curves, which would weaken the reported universal crossings.
Original abstract
We calculate the partition function $Z(G,Q,v)$ of the $Q$-state Potts model exactly for strips of the square and triangular lattices of various widths $L_y$ and arbitrarily great lengths $L_x$, with a variety of boundary conditions, and with $Q$ and $v$ restricted to satisfy conditions corresponding to the ferromagnetic phase transition on the associated two-dimensional lattices. From these calculations, in the limit $L_x \to \infty$, we determine the continuous accumulation loci ${\cal B}$ of the partition function zeros in the $v$ and $Q$ planes. Strips of the honeycomb lattice are also considered. We discuss some general features of these loci.
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We calculate the partition function $Z(G,Q,v)$ of the $Q$-state Potts model exactly for strips of the square and triangular lattices of various widths $L_y$ and arbitrarily great lengths $L_x$, with a variety of boundary conditions, and with $Q$ and $v$ restricted to satisfy conditions corresponding to the ferromagnetic phase transition on the associated two-dimensional lattices. From these calculations, in the limit $L_x \to \infty$, we determine the continuous accumulation loci ${\cal B}$ of the partition function zeros in the $v$ and $Q$ planes. Strips of the honeycomb lattice are also considered. We discuss some general features of these loci.
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| s0 | We calculate the partition function $Z(G,Q,v)$ of the $Q$-state Potts model exactly for strips of the square and triangular lattices of various widths $L_y$ and arbitrarily great lengths $L_x$, with a variety of boundary conditions, and with $Q$ and $v$ restricted to satisfy conditions corresponding to the ferromagnetic phase transition on the associated two-dimensional lattices. | contribution 0.85 | 0.97 | 0.11 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | From these calculations, in the limit $L_x \to \infty$, we determine the continuous accumulation loci ${\cal B}$ of the partition function zeros in the $v$ and $Q$ planes. | result 0.95 | 0.97 | 0.51 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | Strips of the honeycomb lattice are also considered. | contribution 0.96 | 0.84 | 0.02 | asserted 0.96 |
| s3 | We discuss some general features of these loci. | interpretation 0.61 | 0.82 | 0.05 | unclear 0.59 |
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