High-precision determination of the critical exponent gamma for self-avoiding walks
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice
Chemical Physics
Abstract
We compute the exponent gamma for self-avoiding walks in three dimensions. We get gamma = 1.1575 +- 0.0006 in agreement with renormalization-group predictions. Earlier Monte Carlo and exact-enumeration determinations are now seen to be biased by corrections to scaling.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9703250,
title = {High-precision determination of the critical exponent gamma for self-avoiding walks},
author = {Sergio Caracciolo and Maria Serena Causo and Andrea Pelissetto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9703250},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages