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Classifying Potts critical lines

Statistical Mechanics 2017-10-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We use scale invariant scattering theory to exactly determine the lines of renormalization group fixed points invariant under the permutational symmetry SqS_q in two dimensions, and show how one of these scattering solutions describes the ferromagnetic and square lattice antiferromagnetic critical lines of the qq-state Potts model. Other solutions we determine should correspond to new critical lines. In particular, we obtain that a SqS_q-invariant fixed point can be found up to the maximal value q=(7+17)/2q=(7+\sqrt{17})/2. This is larger than the usually assumed maximal value 4 and leaves room for a second order antiferromagnetic transition at q=5q=5.

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@article{arxiv.1707.00998,
  title  = {Classifying Potts critical lines},
  author = {Gesualdo Delfino and Elena Tartaglia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.00998},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

15 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables; published version

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