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Critical Behavior of a Three-State Potts Model on a Voronoi Lattice

Statistical Mechanics 2019-08-17 v1

Abstract

We use the single-histogram technique to study the critical behavior of the three-state Potts model on a (random) Voronoi-Delaunay lattice with size ranging from 250 to 8000 sites. We consider the effect of an exponential decay of the interactions with the distance,J(r)=J0exp(ar)J(r)=J_0\exp(-ar), with a>0a>0, and observe that this system seems to have critical exponents γ\gamma and ν\nu which are different from the respective exponents of the three-state Potts model on a regular square lattice. However, the ratio γ/ν\gamma/\nu remains essentially the same. We find numerical evidences (although not conclusive, due to the small range of system size) that the specific heat on this random system behaves as a power-law for a=0a=0 and as a logarithmic divergence for a=0.5a=0.5 and a=1.0a=1.0

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0008285,
  title  = {Critical Behavior of a Three-State Potts Model on a Voronoi Lattice},
  author = {F. W. S. Lima and U. M. S. Costa and M. P. Almeida and J. S. Andrade},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0008285},
  year   = {2019}
}

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3 pages, 5 figures