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Critical interfaces and duality in the Ashkin Teller model

Statistical Mechanics 2012-10-22 v1

Abstract

We report on the numerical measures on different spin interfaces and FK cluster boundaries in the Askhin-Teller (AT) model. For a general point on the AT critical line, we find that the fractal dimension of a generic spin cluster interface can take one of four different possible values. In particular we found spin interfaces whose fractal dimension is d_f=3/2 all along the critical line. Further, the fractal dimension of the boundaries of FK clusters were found to satisfy all along the AT critical line a duality relation with the fractal dimension of their outer boundaries. This result provides a clear numerical evidence that such duality, which is well known in the case of the O(n) model, exists in a extended CFT.

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@article{arxiv.1011.1159,
  title  = {Critical interfaces and duality in the Ashkin Teller model},
  author = {Marco Picco and Raoul Santachiara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.1159},
  year   = {2012}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures

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