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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.

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@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}
}

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8 pages